Ainsi parlait Maksim Orlovich : > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > On Tuesdayen den 30 October 2001 17.44, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:27:52PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > mplayer currently support mmx, mmx2, 3dnow, 3dnowex and sse > > > > optimisations. Turning them all is not a good solution, and i'm not > > > > sure which one one would correspond to a 'reasonable' subset: mmx + > > > > 3dnow + sse ? > > > > > > Of course I vote for whatever optimization Athlon's have in them. MMX > > > and 3dnow I think. :-) Anything else for an Athlon? > > > > one must ask himself what differencies/benefits/drawbacks all these > > options bring, it just might be enough with mmx only? Sure. AFAIK (please correct me if i'm wrong): sse -> pentium III only 3dnow -> amd K6 only 3dnowex -> amd K7 (athlon) only mmx -> all recent computer mmx2 -> ?? Sofar, the most reasonable performance/maintainance tradeoff seems to maintain this set of package: - i586 with no optimization at all - i686 with mmx optimization
> One possiiblity: IIRC, if you do an strace of a progrma using the dynamic > linker using say, libfoo, it will be checking for something like > i686/mmx/libfoo, i686/libfoo first..Perhaps this can be used? Sorry, too much technical for me :-( -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
