On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:31:26AM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:34:37PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > That benchmark was done on x86. But let's face it, it's the > > architecture that counts. Mind that I am writing this from a PPC, which > > is my main machine.. > > I disagree, amd64 would be the architecture which counts and amd64 > has enough registers to cope with PIC code, but I will not fall in > the game of what architecture counts, even if for me, it would rather > be powerpc anyway.
Maybe in the future, but for now - and for the time that Etch will be supported - there are several orders of magnitude more x86 than amd64 machines. > > > Then, I can agree with you that static linking has better performance. > > > Therefore, what I can recommand is to build mplayer statically, but > > > with a Debian up-to-date ffmpeg package. I am CCing Samuel Hocevar > > > to get his opinion on the matter... > > > > I know that distro people dislike static linking, but multimedia players > > are speed-critical applications. Not everybody has a multi-GHz machine > > and even on those high definition content takes them to the limit... > > This is a false argument. Come one please, do not attempt to tell me > that you can decently play a H.264-encoded video on a non-GHz machine > even with SIMD instruction-set, I will not believe you. WTF? I'm an MPlayer developer and my desktop machine is a K6-III 500MHz. It just happens that I *may* know what I'm talking about here ... Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
