[vlc-devel] [WiP] core: make the background worker multithreaded

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2018-07-10 19:22, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le tiistaina 10. heinäkuuta 2018, 20.11.44 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
>> A way to speed up the preparsing consists in preparsing several inputs
>> in parallel.
> This has already been discussed. It brings intractable support issues.
>
> Like media centers that don't handle or don't allow more than X connection(s)
> (for a very small X), file system or storage whose performance sucks when
> reading more than one node at a time, memory and CPU consumption.

It's not either or in this case. It would be good to have the 
possibility to do it even if it's not the default and probably for VLC 
it should not be the default. But users of libvlc in a constrained 
scenario may want to set it to a lot more thread.

> Basically, nobody seems to know how to compute a safe value for N because it
> is context-dependent. So all things considered, caching the results in a
> database may be less of a problem source than preparsing in parallel.
>
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