[GD-Windows] FYI Win9x and threads

[Erwin de V. <er...@vo...>]

Hi,

Just a quick FYI. On our soundengine we implemented asynchronous file
loading recently. It starts a new thread to load the sound from disk. On
Win98 the creation of threads is SLOW. It really takes several ms on a 1ghz
machine causing a nice stutter in our game. We noticed it here in the office
on a 98 machine, but i suspect 95 and ME also to suffer from this issue. XP
doesnt, so i guess 2k also doesnt. We worked around it by creating a
threadpool and let them wait for a win32 event, and signal the event as soon
as one of them needs to do something. Works like a champ, but it keeps me
wondering.. Its really a shame this is so slow in win9x.

Erwin