[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] use pthreads for caching

[Diego Biurrun]

Just a general remark, not a comment on the issue at hand.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:20:39AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> 
> I Googled around a bit and found that NPTL is indeed quite fast: e.g.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/10710/
> "(NGPT) implementation beat standard Linux threads by at least a factor
> of two in these tests. The NPTL library, however, beat NGPT by about a
> factor of four."

IMO these kinds of numbers just shed a light on the inefficiency of the
old implementation rather than on the efficiency of the new one.

Diego