[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]opencl: compile kernels separately

Lenny Wang lenny at multicorewareinc.com
Fri Nov 1 09:09:39 CET 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 31.10.2013, at 09:45, Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On date Wednesday 2013-10-30 17:41:40 +0100, Reimar Döffinger encoded:
>> [...]
>>> We should really avoid keeping APIs in this "experimental" state,
>>> it's ok for a short while, but after a certain time it starts saying
>>
>>> "we can't be bothered to make sure our stuff actually works properly".
>>
>> No, it's more like: we don't yet know what's the better way to
>> implement this interface, let's keep it experimental for the moment so
>> changing it later won't be a royal PITA, and hopefully we will come
>> with something better.
>
> I know that's what the intention is. That does not change that the message it actually sends after some time becomes IMHO what I said.
> Because in the end, the thing still is that you push the pain onto your users in order to avoid the "royal PITA" for yourself.

Wei/ Micheal,

Please review the last patch so we can move on.  Thanks.


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