On Wednesday 19 March 2003 21:16, Austin wrote:
> On 2003.03.19 15:05 Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> > IMHO nope, as support is offered for packages we provide. i.e. one would
> > assume because that feature is offered packages *he* does rebuild that
> > way are supposed to be supported. Which I think, is not intended.
>
> So maybe the alternative is:
> a) for non-main apps, enable MMX by default
> or

> b) have a repository for i686/MMX built audio/video applications.
>
> Personally I hate option (b), becuase we already have enough RPM sources. 
> Joe user is going to be confused enough setting up five or six
> repositories... we don't need another one.
>
> Austin

I would say use at least mmx where it is usefull. I personally would love to 
see the braindead person that tries to run mpeg2enc on a i586 w/o mmx. 
With 1,1 Ghz Duron on 480x576 I get an average fps of 7-9 with mmx enabled. 
divide that with 10 ( if there is a pentium w/o mmx with 100 Mhz) and then 
with 4 (as shown, performace w/o mmx) would result in 10 frames per minute, 
would make a half minute of video in an hour. 
So i would say there is nobody that is harmed by only having mmx enabled 
mjpegtools. I guess the same math can be done on other packages too. (And I 
don't speak about recompiling KDE or sth. like that, I mean applications that 
are usefull only with optimization)
-- 
Regards
Steffen
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