On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 09:39 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: <snip> > Seriously, how optimized does the mp3 codec need to be? I used to play > mp3s on a Windows 3.1 box with 128 MB of memory. RPM Fusion is full of > players using gcc, and I've yet to run into a place where I needed to > optimize beyond -O2 with gcc. 99% of those players use the same backend library (libmad), and even though they're compiled with low optimisations, most of libmad has MMX/SSE/Altivec/etc. optimisations. That's optimisations. And we're certainly not talking only about MP3. Try playing back an HD Windows Media Video stream with a C-only decoder... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
