xbmc/xbmc — comment on commit fc67f9f1f01626f94e011a0bc95e07c5da37bd0b
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By FernetMenta:

BTW: I have been working on performance improvements for quite a while. E.g. a 1080p@60 movie which plays only about at 40 fps on ION platform using the current version can play at 60 fps when adding additional threads. I don't think that an update lock would harm performance in any way.