[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Removing non-pthreads support

[Måns Rullgård]

Dave Yeo <daveryeo at telus.net> writes:

> On 04/20/10 03:43 am, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Dave Yeo<daveryeo at telus.net>  writes:
>>
>>> On 04/19/10 02:16 pm, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> [...]
>>>> To ease the maintenance burden, I suggest we drop support for all but
>>>> pthreads in FFmpeg.  If there is a compelling reason for keeping any
>>>> of the others, please speak up now.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Make test succeeds on OS/2 with pthreads enabled whereas os2threads
>>> are currently broken.
>>
>> Then I suppose nobody will miss it if we remove it.
>
> I think it should be totally rewritten. In the absence of a volunteer
> to rewrite it (I'll ask around), it should probably be removed in a
> week or so.

If nobody has presented a strong case for keeping OS/2 and BeOS
threads support by Friday, I will delete them.  Simply fixing them is
_not_ enough.  I require 1) evidence that they perform significantly
better than pthreads on the same systems, and 2) reason to believe
they will be maintained.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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