[MPlayer-dev-eng] Adding threaded functionality to mplayer NODAEMON

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:46:41AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> >
> >A similar issue is debated on the kernel level; why should be try to
> >cache gigabytes from VOB files during playing and discard all the
> >things which can be useful in the future (libraries, config files,
> >tmp files,...). See madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
> >
> 
> Do you mean CPU cache, or using RAM to cache the DVD device.
> We don't cache gigabytes from VOB files to RAM during playback.

filesystem (ram) cache, of course. this is a different issue, but
analogous.

rich