Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:00AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), > >> the performance penalty was found to be on the order of

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), >> the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. >> ... by testing with somewhat typical programs. >> I don't know w

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:18:22AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > > ("statically linked for performance reasons", rotfl) > > Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the > performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. > > I don't

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sam Hocevar wrote: > ("statically linked for performance reasons", rotfl) Well, when the glibc people had this discussion (the switch to ELF), the performance penalty was found to be on the order of 5%. I don't know whether modern CPUs' register aliasing hardware changes that number. Whethe

Re: mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003, Andrea Mennucc wrote: > we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the > work we did is enough to let this package in Debian The MPlayer tree contains an almost verbatim copy of libdvdcss ("statically linked for performance reasons", rotfl) and a co

mplayer 0.90, was Re: why mplayer not in Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Andrea Mennucc
well, I changed my mind a packaging of mplayer 0.90 is available at deb http://tonelli.sns.it/pub/mplayer/ ./ we asked for someone on debian-legal to scrutinize it and say if the work we did is enough to let this package in Debian it has also been uploaded to the queue (in case an ftp-installer