Sriram Natarajan wrote:
> Hi
> Has any one considered compiling some of the open source CPU intensive
> applications with MediaLib ? I am evaluating on the benefits of
> compiling PHP's GD library with this tool and I want to know if any one
> has done this before and is this approach going to be accepted within
> Open Solaris SFW build system ?
>
> http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlibfiles.html
GTK has used medialib for a while for image scaling and similar operations.
I've cc'ed Brian Cameron who did a lot of that work and would be able to
best explain the benefits they saw.
However, all the applications linked with it have had to make sure that
usage is optional (i.e. dlopen() not direct link) since there's not
enough room on the OpenSolaris LiveCD's for the very large size of the
MediaLib libraries in all their CPU-specific variations.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
