[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Runtime-inited versus Hardcoded tables.

[Zdenek Kabelac]

2008/1/31, Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>:
> Hello,
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:47:33AM +0100, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
> > Yes - that's obvious - but I think distribution of some large binary
> > tables (either in sources or executables) is by faaaaaar more painful
> > then having them initialized on the runtime and only when needed.
>
> Well, that so far is an assertion without reasoning behind it though.
> At least for all I know, the tables could easily be smaller than the
> code to generate them after compression in many cases.
> It also raises the question which scenario exactly you are thinking of
> that you would consider distribution of (at my random guess) a few 100 kB of
> extra data painful...

Well of course we are not talking about tables which take ~1kB here ;)

But I think that files like rv34vlc.h,indeo3data.h are already quite
too much if there exists simple code to generate them at runtime I
would prefer rather this version.

The scenario is simple - you release binary/source package which is
then downloaded by thousands of user - which spends time/money waiting
for download :)

Zdenek