Bug#657019: Please document why the package includes non-PIC code

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Di, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:04:00 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 23.01.2012 14:53, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>> The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and
>> upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that
>> support this.
>>
>> Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages.
>
> Is there any benchmark available (for either package) that compares the
> performance of the library using the hand written assambler code with
> one using generic code?

Have a look at upstream commit logs. Many commit messages count cpu
cycles as performance speedup.

http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=commitdiff;h=748fe16c1303b89d2a1d0378addd83fb4198f51a
http://git.videolan.org/?p=x264.git;a=commitdiff;h=6b06f6d3f7f800dca1a4ea154f54427d5b3cea2b

no name only some very recent ones.

Cheers,
Reinhard

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