[gst-devel] Re: gstreamer-cvs digest, Vol 1 #1687 - 8 msgs

[David Schleef]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:49:22AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Yo,
> 
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2004, gstreamer-cvs-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> > CVS Root:       /home/cvs/gstreamer
> > Module:         gstreamer
> > Changes by:     company
> > Date:           Fri Apr 09 2004  12:05:15 PDT
> > 
> [...]
> > don't use memchunks for these objects, use malloc instead
> 
> Why? I thought memchunks were faster and more realtime-safe.

There is evidence that memchunks are slower unless you have large
chunk sizes and lots of allocation/deallocation.  Neither is true
in this case.  (GstBuffer may qualify, but it's still memchunk
allocated anyway.)

GMemchunk uses malloc internally, so there's very little reason
for it to be more real-time-safe than malloc itself.



dave...