Subject: Re: Shark again: playing mp3s
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 04/24/2002 15:10:23
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ben Harris wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > 	What are people using to play mp3s in their sharks?
> > 	Both mpg123 not mad cannot decode fast enough on my shark
> > 	running today's current (compiled with -mcpu=strongarm110).
>
> Anything that uses FP is likely to be slower than it was in 1.5, because
> when I arranged for SoftFloat to be shared between all ports I only
> imported the 64-bit version.  This turned out to be a mistake since the
> 32-bit version is quite a lot faster on 32-bit hardware.
>
> If I run out of actual show-stopping bugs to fix, I might get round to
> dealing with mere performance issues.

	Aha - thanks :) I'll revert to 1.5-release on it if I get a
	moment...

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