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

[Anton Khirnov]

Quoting Andreas Rheinhardt (2022-07-14 14:51:07)
> 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.

Ordinary realloc just keeps the data, I wouldn't call that "reuse" since
it will often be a copy. This "fast" realloc OTOH reuses the actual
buffer, same as all the other "fast" mem.h functions.

But feel free to suggest another naming pattern if you can think of one.

-- 
Anton Khirnov