Re: Message negociation
"Toby Hudon" <[email protected]>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:10:04 +0100 To: "The attempt to create a new, open standard codec API" <[email protected]> Subject: [Media-api] Message negociation > I was just think about pointers... > > We said that we need messages but that treating them all the time in a > switch could have an impact on performance. > > So what about having a filter ask for a function to the filter it wants > to send the message. It only has to do this once and then call this > function instead of sending a message. > Are we really so starved for cpu power that a couple hundred compares of a variable to a fixed value will kill us? How slow is it really to do "does X = #?" for each entry in the switch when you pass it? -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm