[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] split-radix FFT

[Uoti Urpala]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 17:10 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> And just to clarify, yes what i considered a good argument was the sentance
> above where my reply is. That is to use MANGLE in speed critical code.
> That way most textrels are avoided while minimizing the speed impact.
> 
> I do not think you ever argued for that.

IIRC I did mention the possibility of omitting -fPIC for a subset of
files. 

>  I remember you strongly arguing
> toward replacing all MANGLE by "m" knowing that it would break gcc 2.95
> and not really caring that it would slow down code compiled with -fPIC.

Of course the code would be slower on x86. If you want it to be as fast
as possible then compile it with -fPIC on x86. I don't think it's
worthwhile to pick only the globals used inside asm for such special
treatment.