[gst-devel] Re: [gst-cvs] CVS: gstreamer/gst gstbuffer.c,1.36.2.5,1.36.2.6

[vishnu at pobox.com]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:08:52AM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Joshua Pritikin wrote:
> > 2 Removed gst_buffer_ref_by_count.
>
> Why?  This is supposed to be used by a refcounting-correct tee, so it can
> add references for all its src pads all at once.

i can't believe it's worth an additional API to avoid writing a for loop.
Refcounting isn't exactly a high spot that needs such high levels of
optimization.  At least, i'd want some benchmark results first.

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