[x264-devel] x264_malloc/x264_free reduction patch

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Guillaume POIRIER
<gpoirier at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2008/12/28 kemuri-_9 <kemuri9 at gmail.com>:
>
>> from some very small scale testing on a video w/ 1000 640x480-sized frames,
>> the number of x264_malloc/x264_free calls is reduced 97+% on default
>> settings w/o ssim calculation
>> and reduced 99+% w/ ssim calculation
>
> Does it lead to a measurable encoding speed difference?

It should help dramatically on OS X, where, AFAIK, repeated malloc in
threaded programs is very bad for performance.

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