[vlc-devel] [RFC] Plugins CPU requirements

[Måns Rullgård]

"Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi at remlab.net> writes:

> Le samedi 9 janvier 2010 16:03:04 Rémi Denis-Courmont, vous avez écrit :
>> 2) Encode each CPU requirement through a dedicated exported symbol. For
>> instance, if a plugin exposes vlc_plugin_MMX, then it requires MMX.
>> Generating the module bank will be a tiny bit slower.
>
> It seemed nice. But this could break if the shared object automatically runs 
> code when it is loaded (C++ plugins do that for instance).

Another good reason to avoid C++.

>> 3) Encode CPU requirements in the name or path of each plugin. For
>>  instance, if a plugin file name ends in "_mmx.$(LIBEXT)" it requires MMX.
>
> This does not quite work with more than one requirement for a single plugin.
>
>> 4) Store optimized plugins in dedicated directories, just like GNU ld (e.g.
>> /usr/lib/i686/cmov vs /usr/lib). If a plugin is in an mmx/ (sub)directory,
>>  it requires MMX. It would be easier if optimized plugins were already in
>>  separate source code directories - they aren't.
>
> Thus, ^this^ seem like the only option left. Opinions?

How does this work if features are not a strictly expanding set and a
module has multiple requirements?

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