On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:25:16 +0100, Richard Guenther wrote: > > I'm obviously missing something, why would anyone want to have a plugin > > installed which can run on arbitrary CPU's? The only reason I can think of > > is if you move the partition from one machine to another, or on an NFS > > partition shared by machines with different architectures, but how many > > people do that? > > Uh, too many to not to care. I think an acceptable policy for LADSPA > plugins would be to have at least code for the weakest available CPU > around (i.e. C code, compiled with -march=i386), additional optimized > code should be used only after run-time detection of the CPU.
This is not normal policy for applications, why should it be for plugins? People who really want to run fload heavy plugins on genuine [34]86 hardware: 1) are crazy 2) are free to compile it themselves - Steve
