Name: fb126949 Date: 10/21/2002


sun.audio.AudioPlayer creates a "mixing thread" that was used in 1.1 apps and applets for mixing audio from different streams. Since 1.2, Java Sound is used for audio playback but this thread is still running, for legacy reasons (the source code in AudioPlayer says that apparently some legacy apps check for existence of that thread). For Tiger, this legacy code should be removed for the sake of cleaner code and less memory and thread usage.


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