[MPlayer-dev-eng] demuxer question

[Arpi]

Hi,

> A related note, do you think it would make mplayer faster if 
> new_demux_packet() wouldn't actually always malloc() new packets, but if it 
> would have a "list" or whatever of demux_packet_t's which it marks free and 
> used ?
> The requested size would have to be checked.

for constant size packets, it may help. but it's rare, only uncompressed and
dv has such thing :)

for variable buffer size, i assume that we cannot beat libc's malloc()
implementation... so it doesn't worth to mess with it.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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