[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MPlayer-dev-eng Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

[Jan Knutar]

On Friday 05 August 2005 22:05, Andrea Palmatè wrote:
> Il 05/08/2005  17.14, hai scritto
> > > Someone has tried to implements cache2 using pthreads?
> >why
> because not all systems has fork() and/or windows CreateThread.

IIRC, the reason cache2 uses fork rather than threads, is that it
has less overhead and thus is faster.