[NUT-devel] Split index per stream?

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:28:38PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:42:00PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > one index for syncpoint pos, one for each stream?
> 
> Hmm, not sure it is worth it.. How do you even tell between them (I guess a 
> stream_id_plus1 in the begginning). Doesn't add much for robustness (the 
> stream stuff is tiny, 1-4kb of 80kb), and brings back the old index_ptr and 
> several index complexity issues.. I'm against.

ok

btw, how much space would we gain/loose if we use
- sp[i-2] + 2*sp[i-1] as sycpoint position predictor instead of sp[i-1]?
or even
sp[i-1] + median(sp[i-1] - sp[i-2], sp[i-2] - sp[i-3], sp[i-3] - sp[i-4])


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Michael