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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Proposed changes to threading APIRe: Proposed changes to threading API
From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:31:30 +0200 Nix wrote: > True concurrency may eventually require some sort of simple locking in > any case, but the... strongly separated nature of much of what Rockbox > does hopefully means that this can be kept to a minimum (e.g. if one > core does nothing but audio, not much will need locking: if somehow > the audio decoding gets split across cores, the only things which will > need any sort of inter-thread cooperation are still only things > directly related to sharing the decoding load, and so on). Yes, the audio decoding could perhaps be concurrent, but making the entire kernel preemptive would make things a lot harder. Linus Received on 2006-08-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |