[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Make -nortc the default?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 03:19:06PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:22:02PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > > Also, I've since upgraded to Slackware 10.2, and see the same behavior
> > > (still a 2.4.x kernel).  -rtc is a serious slowdown.
> > 
> > 2.4 isn't that relevant any more. And on 2.4 rtc might actually be
> > preferable since most 2.4 kernels are compiled with HZ=100 and so rtc
> > can give more accurate timing.
> 
> IMO 2.6 isn't very relevant because every version has serious bugs and
> instabilities, including new serious vulns every few weeks...

You are of course entitled to your opinion, but that opinion is not
relevant to the majority of Linux users who use kernel 2.6.x ...

Diego