[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/8] avutil/mem: Add av_fast_realloc_array()

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Anton Khirnov:
> Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2022-07-12 16:12:16)
>> Anton really dislikes the av_fast_* naming and instead wants this to be
>> called av_realloc_array_reuse(). I don't care either way. Any more
>> opinions on this (or on the patch itself)?
> 
> If people dislike _reuse(), I am open to other reasonable suggestions.
> This 'fast' naming sucks because
> - it tells you nothing about how this function is "fast"
> - it is added at the beginning rather than the end, which is
>   against standard namespacing conventions
> 

Isn't reusing the basic modus operandi for a reallocation function? So
your suggested name doesn't seem to fit either.
(The actual difference of this function to an ordinary function is that
it overallocates and does not shrink the buffer even if it is too big.)

- Andreas