[MPlayer-dev-eng] MplayerXP vs Mplayer. Hall of truth.

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, Daniel!

On 17 Mar 2002 17:46:52 +0100 you wrote:

> Am Son, 2002-03-17 um 16.34 schrieb Nick Kurshev:
> 
> > And without any reasons! Threads are good things! They provide better CPU
> > utilization! We can decode in non realtime mode - simply when cpu is free.
> > but realtime process - page flipping doesn't require a lot of cpu resources.
> 
> Threads are useful if you can find blocking tasks which are
> parallelisable and thus prevent maximum cpu utilisation. Threads have
I know such task - usleep()
Thread can sleep too ;)
> several drawbacks, one of them are locking issues another one would
> be overhead for the thread management, another one would be harder
> debugability, another one would be the against-nature of threads versus
> processes on Unixsystems.
> 
> IBM uses threads with Java extensivly for no good reason and all they
> get is piss-poor performance for which they're blaming linux.
> 
> Please use threads only iff there's some real value in that.
> 
I know that inaccurate thread usage causes slowdowning of system.
But they the best solution in my case!
> -- 
> Servus,
>        Daniel
> 
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Best regards! Nick
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