[Mplayer-users] What to do before version 1.0

[Alex Kanavin]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Arpi wrote:

> > "none, MMX, SSE, 3DNOW, SSE2"  just as I said.
> there is *big* speed difference between code compiled for 586 and 686.
> the pipelineing is totally different of these CPUs. same for k5/k6.

This all sounds good in theory, but when I compare two binaries, one
compiled with -march=i586 -mcpu=i586 and the other one with -march=i686
-mcpu=i686, I don't see any speed difference. I'm playing 320x240 mpeg-1
file via Xv on my Celeron-266 system, and here's what I get with both
binaries:

A: 112.8 ( 112.5)  V: 112.5  A-V:  0.004 ct:  0.028  3363  26%  0%  5.8% 52

'top' also shows about 30% load for mplayer, 17% for X in both cases.

Of course extensive tests on different systems are needed (586 vs athlon
binaries on AMD processors etc). But I think all difference will be lost
in the noise, so to say. So Christoph is probably right. And
none/MMX/SSE/3DNOW optimized routines should be decided at runtime (imho).

So, an universal binary might be possible, after all :-)

-- 
Alexander

Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/





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