[MPlayer-dev-eng] Do we need to check for CPU types with --enable-runtime-cpudetection?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:03:16PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:48:44AM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> > 
> > 2006/12/3, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > >Patches welcome.
> > 
> > Oldest cpu we support: i486 or i386 then?
> 
> I don't really care.  Would MPlayer run on a 386?  Is there anything it
> could play on such a machine?

As pointed out by Reimar, *should* somebody use a 386, then the
performance overhead of runtime cpudetection is likely to be
significant.  Hence these people are even more likely to compile without
it.

I don't really care, use whatever you see fit.

Diego