[vlc-devel] [PATCH] access: dvb: Realloc block to actually used size.

[Denis Charmet]

Le lundi 23 septembre 2013 à 04:50:51, Julian Scheel a écrit :
> So actually as of now there will be a realloc in almost every read
> procedure, which indeed sounds a bit costly. Still a shrinking
> realloc, assuming that the realloc implementation is a good one,
> would only free the left-over memory, which again is not too costly.
> 
> So what would you guys say? Reduce the BUFSIZE to something like 5
> packets and never Realloc, which will still waste some memory, but
> less? Make BUFSIZE dynamically changing to previous read-size + 1?
> Or some more sophisticated shaping algorithm?
> Or just take the reallocs and assume that the implementations will
> perform well?

Alternatively, is it possible to call the dvb_read function several
times to fill the buffer in one Read occurence?

In any case, if I'm the only one frowning at the realloc thing, then
it's good enough :)

Regards,

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