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

[Tomas Härdin]

tis 2022-09-27 klockan 17:23 +0200 skrev Tomas Härdin:
> mån 2022-09-26 klockan 16:24 +0200 skrev Tomas Härdin:
> > mån 2022-09-26 klockan 14:25 +0200 skrev Andreas Rheinhardt:
> > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I see two differences between this function and ordinary realloc:
> > > It
> > > never shrinks the buffer and it overallocates. These two
> > > properties
> > > make
> > > it more likely that these functions can avoid copies more often
> > > than
> > > plain realloc (but in contrast to realloc, we can not grow the
> > > buffer
> > > in
> > > case there is free space after it), but it is nevertheless the
> > > same
> > > as
> > > realloc.
> > > 
> > > But I don't really care that much about the name and will
> > > therefore
> > > use
> > > your name as I can't come up with anything better.
> > > (Of course, I am still open to alternative suggestions.)
> > > 
> > > - Andreas
> > 
> > So this means av_realloc_array_reuse()? Eh, it works. I will add a
> > function that also zeroes the newly allocated space, what should we
> > call that? av_realloc_array_reusez()?
> > av_realloc_array_reuse_zerofill()?
> 
> Here's a draft patch that calls it av_reallocz_array_reuse(). Needs a
> minor version bump of course

This makes me realize something: av_realloc_array_reuse() requires that
*nb_allocated == 0 initially but this isn't specified in the
documentation. Patch attached relaxes this.

/Tomas
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