[MPlayer-users] rant

Gábor Lénárt lgb at lgb.hu
Tue Oct 9 15:30:01 CEST 2001


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:26:59AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:38:51PM +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > It does not worth to support! If you can select between functions optimized
> > for various CPUs it would take much more memory and a bit more CPU time
> > (function pointers). If you make dynamic loadable "plugins" it would
> > decrease performance about between 10 and 20 percent (afaik). The latter
> > because on x86 relocation information should be kept in a register (and
> > shared objects are this kind of thing ..). 
> 
> Uhh, this is complete nonsense. If written in any reasonable manner it 
> will be no slower. Also, mplayer already links against half a dozen 

P*L*E*A*S*E! Don't flame me, I was probably coding much more x86 assembly
than you. These are the facts! Please read some dox, learn more because it's
very lamer attitude to say "complete nonsense" even if you're not right :)

> shared libraries, and dynamically loads dvd support at run time as 
> necessary. You don't even need to use any shared code, that's just the
> neatest solution.
> 
> > Our world is not perfect. Usually modularity is against the performance ...
> 
> Usually it makes no impact on runtime performance, only on load time. 
> That's why unix-like systems have been modularly designed for the last 
> 20 years or so.

Arghhhh! Please again! And again. Maybe I know much more on Linux kernel
than you. If you don't understand this, go to the corner and learn! And
stop this flame thread on a public mailing list (send it in private if you
wish).

> > And please note that there're more reasons for this remark in the possible
> > future full GPL licence: user compiled mplayer versions can be even buggy,
> > because of buggy compilers, not perfectly used options at configuring ...
> > Inmagine that a novice mplayer user get a binary of mplayer with only some
> > component compiled in. So that user would say: it's a piece of shit, it can't
> > do anything.
> 
> a) a complete moron will always get the wrong end of the stick somehow
> b) why do you care, anyway? is the approval of halfwits so important to you?

Ask Arpi, AFAIK this was his opinion.

> > Of course it can be happen nowdays too, but at least we can
> > point to dox that this is banned so you have been warned ... But IMHO it's
> > a general problem about free softwares. While I stronly believe in free
> > software (and GPL as well), as developers we don't want to get tons of
> > bugreport which is useless for us because it's "user error".
> 
> Then quit getting users. Sloppily compiled binaries are rare unless you use 
> redhat; user error is extremely common. There are plenty of other 
> opportunities for a user to screw up. Live with the users or unsubscribe 
> from the list.

Nice :) Maybe YOU should unsubscribe and learn SOMETHING on human manner.
I was explaining my opinion only then you started this personal flame against
me. Imho you would unsubscribe before I will ever do it :)

> It's nothing to do with free software, either. Stupid people are 
> universal.

As well as stupid guys on some mailing lists :)

- Gabor



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