[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others
D Richard Felker III
dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Jan 20 18:41:30 CET 2003
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:21:52PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > imho both projects have advantages and disadvantages.
> > A big advantage of mplayer for sure is its smaller mem needs - i can't
> > use xine on my pda eg. :)
> > imho merging the good parts from both projects would be a nice thing -
> > there would be a player which is nice modular, supports every format, is fast
> > and consumes little mem. maybe it's a bit naive/utopistic :)
> no, it's just dreaming :)
>
> > btw: what I always hear being said is that gcc3.2 optimizes better than gcc
> > 2.95 actually - don't know which is true
>
> gcc 3.x optimizes better, results in a few % (not enough to worth, imho)
> faster c code, but compiling time is twice as 2.9x and gcc 3.x has tons of
> silly bugs, often miscompiles etc.
gcc 3.x makes code that runs 1-10% slower on k6. (10% for mplayer!!)
Apparently they forgot to test on anything but athlons. :(
Rich
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