[FFmpeg-devel] Discussion related to the use of a global thread pool rather than the current threading model

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 8 January 2016 at 23:24, wm4 <nfxjfg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> A global thread pool sounds like an extremely messy and unclean
> solution. The state of a library is not supposed to affect anything
> else in the same process.

The point of my message was to start a discussion, not to receive
immediate answer ridiculing the idea and I have to say by someone who
clearly haven't done much work on highly parallelised application, and
who fail to even consider the problem.