[mythtv] [PATCH] Altivec optimizations

[Isaac Richards]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:26 pm, Jeremiah Morris wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2004, at 9:19 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > The filter architecture is all contributed code..  C++ would certainly
> > be
> > easier, but can lead to ABI issues at times..
>
> How do the plugins get around this issue?  They are compiled separately
> and loaded at runtime, but they have access to libmyth and the rest.

They compare the libmyth abi version number to what they were compiled 
against.  Doesn't always work, but catches the majority of such issues.

> Would it be possible to build a new filter architecture by reusing code
> from the existing plugin architecture?

Yup, should be relatively easy.

Isaac