Specializing for a configuration and towards a minimal x264

[FAMILIAR-project]

Instead of putting compile-time options (compilation directives) throughout the code, another possible approach is to consider one specific configuration and synthesize the "minimal" source code that can execute it. We can start with default configurations like ultrafast, veryslow, or placebo https://github.com/ternava/x264/blob/master/tools/test_x264.py#L40-L49

Here I propose we create branches for each default configuration that we want to specialize...

@ternava where is the original source code? My guess is https://github.com/ternava/x264/tree/x264-e9a5903edf
second question: should I use ./configure --disable-avs --enable-pic --enable-shared && make to test my new specialized source code?

• [ ] ultrafast
• [ ] veryslow (I'm taking it -- Mathieu)
• [ ] placebo

[ternava]

All right. I can try the first option then.

To answer your two questions:

• The https://github.com/ternava/x264/tree/x264-e9a5903edf is the "version" that you have used in your previous experiments. Whereas, the version that I'm using is from the forked version in the master branch: https://github.com/ternava/x264 [I'll explain why!].
• To compile it, I use only ./configure && make.