On 16/12/2009 08:59 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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. > > FFMPEG for sparc uses Medialib as well.
-Siva
