Fw: is this project alive?

[Peter Jay Salzman]

hi sam,

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 
> > after compiling the source with ppro and mmx enabled, dvd playing was
> > nearly flawless under a PII/400.  it WAS flawless after setting up the
> > mtrr's correctly
> 
>    Ah, I never bothered about tuning the MTRRs, does it improve
> performances significantly ?

yes -- significantly, in fact.  unfortunately, until i have time to hack an
"average fps", the only thing i can tell you is "the number in the right
hand corner never goes below 100/10" with mtrr's set up.  without them, it
can get as low as 70/10.

(i assume these numbers mean 10 frames a sec and 7 frames a sec?)

subjectively, the movie is smoother and there's less jitter.

> > and switching from enlightenment to the mwm window manager.
> 
>    Sounds strange to me. Either enlightenment or vlc is doing something
> bad here.

enlightenment is a _hog_.  i run quantum simulations on my home computer
(i'm a physics grad student).  enlightenment devastates my program's run
time.  (this is straight enlightenment; not gnome/enlightenment).

pete