Hi, I notice in recent changelog of VLC that apparently it is now built with altivec on PowerPC, as a fix for bug#660936.
Is that ok? I mean, do we no longer support non-altivec PowerPC machines, or is it somehow ensured that only an Altivec plugin is affected, not all code? For 32 bit x86 I believe it is ok to optimize for 486 (i.e. we no longer support 386) but not (generally) to optimize for 686. In the past Altivec was similar to 686 (i.e. only optimize when also providing a non-optimized variant or plugin). I am unaware if that has changed, or if perhaps there is some official place to lookup current status. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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