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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 8/6/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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
 
We already support windows threads for cache, are there other systems
that don't have fork.
OS/2 maybe?