[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] use timer-lx.c on darwin & osx

Nicolas Plourde nicolas.plourde at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 27 18:05:23 CEST 2005


On 27-Apr-05, at 11:59 AM, Arpi wrote:
>
> i had the same idea yesterday :)
> (but i was lazy to check if it's really the cause...)
>
> anyway cache doesnt need accurate sleep, it's just to avoid eating up
> all cpu while waiting for i/o. so simple usleep() would be better  
> maybe?
> (afair it was usleep() originally when i wrote it, maybe it was  
> changed
> later to ease portability?)
>

its usec_sleep for portability reason I guess.

>
> should be 0.001 or maybe 0.005, 5ms isn't noticable anyway and
> the call overhead and inaccurate usleep may delay more than a few ms.
>

ok

> maybe backporting the new timing system from g2 would be a better  
> idea...
>

I'm definitely not the men for the job.

thanks for the feedback Arpi

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Nicolas Plourde <nicolas.plourde at sympatico.ca>




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