Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] use optimized routines "à la" SMP-alternatives

[Luca Barbato]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi there,
> While I was reading this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/164121/ a
> crazy idea came to my mind:
> 
> Would it be possible to get libavcodec self-optimize itself at runtime
> by using the tricks  described in this article?

No, you don't want them, really.

> 
> Note that I imagine it won't work any other platforms than the ones
> that support ELF.

We could check and discover than mach-o could use something too.

Still it is quite an hack to make happy distributions that don't want to
produce automated builds of kernels.

Nothing you really want to use beside a limited scope within the kernel.

lu

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Luca Barbato

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