[MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:46:13PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > 
> > No, if anything it will improve perfomance. I am very adamant that
> > these files be rewritten without intrinsics. Intrinsics are very
> > compiler-specific and their performance is subject to the whims (and
> > bugs) of compilers. Asm is asm and will work anywhere on any compiler
> > version and the performance will be the same.
> 
> asm is asm and thus is subject to the whims (and bugs) of assemblers
> (see yasm vs nasm or gnu as vs gnu^Wapple as)

yet none of this has changed in the past almost-20 years! it's just
that no one cared for supporting the old syntax before darwin came
around...

rich