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(svn r17776) -Codechange: [SDL] make "update the video card"-process asynchronious. Profiling with gprof etc. hasn't shown us that DrawSurfaceToScreen takes a significant amount of CPU; only using TIC/TOC it became apparant that it was a heavy CPU-cycle user or that it was waiting for something.
The benefit of making this function asynchronious ranges from 2%-25% (real time) during fast forward on dual core/hyperthreading-enabled CPUs; 8bpp improvements are, in my test cases, significantly smaller than 32bpp improvements.
On single core non-hyperthreading-enabled CPUs the extra locking/scheduling costs up to 1% extra realtime in fast forward. You can use -v sdl:no_threads to disable threading and undo this loss.
During normal non-fast-forwarded games the benefit/costs are negligable except when the gameloop takes more than about 90% of the time of a tick.
Note that allegro's performance does not improve with this system, likely due to their way of getting data to the video card. It is not implemented for the OS X/Windows video backends, unless (ofcourse) SDL is used there.
Funny is that the performance of the 32bpp(-anim) blitter is, at least in some test cases, significantly faster (more than 10%) than the 8bpp(-optimized) blitter when looking at real time in fast forward on a dual core CPU; it was slower.
The idea comes from a paper/report by Idar Borlaug and Knut Imar Hagen.

/* $Id$ */

/*
 * This file is part of OpenTTD.
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 */

/** @file thread_none.cpp No-Threads-Available implementation of Threads */

#include "../stdafx.h"
#include "thread.h"

/* static */ bool ThreadObject::New(OTTDThreadFunc proc, void *param, ThreadObject **thread)
{
	if (thread != NULL) *thread = NULL;
	return false;
}

/** Mutex that doesn't do locking because it ain't needed when there're no threads */
class ThreadMutex_None : public ThreadMutex {
public:
	virtual void BeginCritical() {}
	virtual void EndCritical() {}
	virtual void WaitForSignal() {}
	virtual void SendSignal() {}
};

/* static */ ThreadMutex *ThreadMutex::New()
{
	return new ThreadMutex_None();
}