[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wishlist
Arpi
arpi at thot.banki.hu
Wed Aug 28 15:01:51 CEST 2002
Hi,
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:41:47AM +0200, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 28 August 2002, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > Hi everybody!
> > [...]
> > > In the meantime we can start collecting wishlist items:
> >
> > (this is a big one)
> > * modularize all VOs and AOs, like vidix drivers; it'd make the main binary
> > smaller and packager's job easier
>
> Yes, and it will cause some 5%-30% slowdown on i86, because shared objects
> uses a register to store data offset ('GOT' or whatever) and poor i86 has
> got too few registers to waste ...
yes, but
1. you can left -fPIC out
2. the ao/vo drivers do nothing cpu-intensive thing, just calls the
functions of other shared libs like sdl, xlib etc. or just export video
buffer pointers (mga, vidix etc).
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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