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Originally posted by yotambien View PostWhat bloat do you refer to that it would affect the numbers like that? It's not that Ubuntu runs random crappy applications for the sake of it--or that's what I hope.Last edited by kraftman; 31 October 2009, 03:40 PM.
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Doesn't mplayer enable some asm routines based on runtime CPU detection?
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostAnd did you tell a difference with mplayer between -march=your_cpu and -march=i486?
And how did you try to measure the difference in the first place? Because virtually no one can count FPS just by looking
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Originally posted by chithanh View Post(...)the assumption that kernel version skewed the results is not consistent with the almost sweeping win of the 2.6.30 based system over 2.6.28.
Of course, I don't know if the different kernel causes performance differences or not, but it could - thus this comparison is useless.
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Originally posted by yotambien View PostI don't know if it would be nice, but it wouldn't be fair. Ubuntu is a distribution that is targeted at the general public, as is Debian or OpenSuse.
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Maybe, but I know for sure that it won't run on a Pentium 4, because I actually tried and get "illegal instruction" errors.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostOptimization flags are always used. In Ubuntu and every other distro too. They don't use --march though, since the apps needs to run on many types of CPU. Compiling with --march=core2, would result in the distro not being able to run on anything older than an Intel Core 2.
EDIT: Oops, I originally read "older" as "other".
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mplayer detects the cpu in the configure script and when you don't use --enable-runtime-cpudetection it will be optimized for the build system. I always recompile mplayer - with some extra patches which are not not mainline and luckyly even my slowest system does not need more than 3 min
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Originally posted by yotambien View PostBut this is why I asked, because I had the feeling that you were refering to that 'bloat'. Are you sure that having more configure options will affect the performance of the program when you don't use the extra stuff? I remember comparing mplayer from Debian multimedia repo and a self-compiled one some time ago...I couldn't tell the difference, honestly.
And how did you try to measure the difference in the first place? Because virtually no one can count FPS just by lookingLast edited by RealNC; 30 October 2009, 07:11 PM.
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