[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Vorbis decoding performance

[Luca Barbato]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 
> Well, last time I used oprofile, I had to be root to set the perf
> counters, that's why I didn't see it as a way to implement START/STOP
> macros (which aren't supposed to need privileged access).
> ... but maybe I just lack Oprofile expertise ^^

Start/stop stuff uses the cpu time ref register for this reason I think^^

perf counters write is always a priviledge operation I think.

lu

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