[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2 5/6] libavutil: Add AVMap

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi Nicolas

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 08:45:27PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer (HE12025-04-15):
> > +AVMap *av_map_new(AVMapCompareFunc cmp_keyvalue, AVMapCopyFunc copy, AVMapFreeFunc freef)
> > +{
> > +    AVMap *s = av_mallocz(sizeof(*s));
> > +    if (!s)
> > +        return NULL;
> 
> Please no.
> 
> The ability to allocate on stack including room for a few values is more
> important than any performance enhancement for large maps.

Where exactly would that benefit FFmpeg ?
Dictionaries generally are used to move stuff aorund, like metadata or
options.
Or may be used in the future to keep track of some mappings like
timestamps to file positions during demuxing or muxing
Or maybe codecs/formats lookup from name

None of these are confined to a single local function


> 
> > +        AVMap *set = av_map_new(our_cmp[settype], NULL, NULL);
> 
> … should be :
> 
> 	AVMap set = av_map_create(cmp, NULL, NULL);
> 
> or :
> 
> 	AVMap set;
> 	av_map_init(&set, sizeof(set), cmp, NULL, NULL);

i like av_map_new() because "new" is short
and sizeof(AVMap) is not public API

thx

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