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

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:47:56PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> 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.

naturally fork is preferred (threads are evil), but for systems with
no fork it would be nice to have an alternate implementation..

rich