Re: Packaging static-only lib?
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:13:29PM +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> I thought about this as well, and in principle this would be possible.
> However, the C version is not really usable. The drop in performance compared
> to the asm version is an estimated factor of ten. As apps usually default
> to be linked against the shared version, this huge discrepancy in my
> opinion is not really desirable. But it's true: x86 is the showstopper for
> all other archs, and this bothers me. On the other hand, x86 is probably
> the only arch where libdv can sensibly be used, simply because of its asm
> optimisations.
Poor performance does not always mean unusability. Is the library only capable
of displaying digital video, or can it do things like batch encoding and
decoding as well? Try not to exclude non-x86 users unless you are sure they
would have absolutely no use for the package.
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- mdz
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