[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] pic working with x86

[Jan Knutar]

On Friday 25 March 2005 20:31, Ismail Donmez wrote:

> Whats the point of PIC if you will slow the mplayer down (by removing 
> MMX/SSE/SSE2 etc) to make it use prelink which is supposed to speed it up?

That question seems to be asked each time someone brings up PIC. IIRC, the
answer has always been something like "It's a matter of principle". My own guess
is that people just like to be able to have the choice of enabling strange flags they
don't really understand, for increased placebo effect speeding up their systems.