[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] disable all threads by default

[Cian Duffy]

On 06/01/07, M?ns Rullg?rd <mru at inprovide.com> wrote:
>
> ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Attached patch disables all threads by default as suggested by:
> >
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2006-December/050237.html
> >
> > It also ensures no more than one thread type is selected and prints the
> > selected type in configure's output.
> [...]
> >    echo "  --enable-pthreads        use pthreads [default=no]"
> >    echo "  --enable-w32threads      use Win32 threads [default=no]"
> > +  echo "  --enable-beosthreads     use BeOS threads [default=no]"
> > +  echo "  --enable-os2threads      use OS/2 threads [default=no]"
>
> Is there any platform that supports more than one threading type?  If
> not, replacing all those flags with a single --enable-threads would
> make sense.


BeOS  6.5 (well, ZETA 1.5) supports bthreads and pthreads out of the box, so
having the ability to ensure that the (slower) pthreads implementation isn't
used would be nice.

Cian

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