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

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Jan 24 10:04:00 UTC 2012


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?





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