[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] cache fill adjustment

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Sun Aug 1 02:40:25 CEST 2004


Heyo,

Man, you are late, i could have used this patch in april :)


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:11:01PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
 
> I have left the default extension of cache size minum. But I think
> There is not a problem to set it about 1GB (the cache system need a sing
> calculations, and from 4GB  it drops to 2. With one bit
> safe for overflow ->1GB. For people with enough ram and CD-ROMs it is enough.
> BTW DVD's are usually bigger than 4GB.
> The limit of 4GB comes from 32 bit pointer arithmetic.

How about making this integer size dependend ?
Ie using 2^62 as limit on 64bit machines ?

I know very few people have already a 64bit machine, but we
should not restirct ourselfs to the past. Beside that removing
that limit will take time (ie will be never done)

			Attila Kinali




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