[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 1/6] lavc: add new API for iterating codecs and codec parsers

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Muhammad Faiz <mfcc64 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:23 PM, Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 Feb 2018, at 18:51, Muhammad Faiz <mfcc64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 3:25 AM, Josh de Kock <josh at itanimul.li> wrote:
>>>> Also replace linked list with an array.
>>>> ---
>>>> configure              |   12 +-
>>>> doc/APIchanges         |    4 +
>>>> libavcodec/.gitignore  |    2 +
>>>> libavcodec/allcodecs.c | 1473 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>>> libavcodec/avcodec.h   |   31 +
>>>> libavcodec/parser.c    |   84 ++-
>>>> libavcodec/utils.c     |  112 ----
>>>> libavcodec/version.h   |    3 +
>>>> 8 files changed, 971 insertions(+), 750 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have a plan to sort codecs based on name and codec_id (which overlap
>>> with this patch). Is it OK if I overtake this?
>>> If it is not OK, I will wait until this patchset pushed.
>>>
>>
>> I am unsure why you would need to sort codecs.
>
> For performance reason.

Performance of what?

- Hendrik