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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:25:52PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> 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.

Exactly. These people are beyond idiotic, and do not deserve our
attention.

Rich