[Ffmpeg-devel] Externally visible symbols without ff or av prefix

[Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò]

On Monday 13 November 2006 14:18, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> But I doubt that a `cat libavcodec/*.c > lavc.c` would be very welcomed
> (I won't even talk about the gigabytes of RAM that gcc would require to
> compile this ;-).
Well, maybe not that many... KDE does something like that (--enable-final at 
configure enable that feature), the result is told to be better, but I 
actually doubt so... it takes less time to build, for sure (less linking 
time, that's what usually kills KDE builds, GNU ld is quite slow).
Considering that C++ code used by KDE requires a lot more RAM than C code 
compiling requires, the only part of the code _really_ able to DoS a machine 
is KMail, that requires between 3.5 and 4 GB of RAM to complete the build.. 
it can easily bog down a machine for good.

I suppose that if you were to build the whole FFmpeg in a single .c file 
(maybe with #include, rather than cat, that would make it have more sense), 
the required memory would be around 400/500 MB, not much more for C code, 
strangely enough GCC does a work some magnitude levels better with C than C++ 
code when it comes to memory usage, I've seen GCC compiling a 10MB C source 
file not going over 50MB of memory, while a 9MB C++ source file takes about 
500MB.

And before I'm called names again, no I don't like such an approach myself, I 
just happen to know this because I get users whining about KMail taking down 
their systems.

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