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

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 02:20:40AM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 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?

iirc someone wanted non-fork cache2 for amiga.. :)

rich