Re: Continuously concatenating binary data

From: K_Lee (Google_Post_at_slink-software.com)
Date: 10/16/03 

Date: 16 Oct 2003 11:36:55 -0700

Just a thought:

If your user have small amount of memory or record large
amount of data, all your malloc/realloc will turn into
swap disk i/o.

It would be no differents than stream approach.
In fact stream give you better control on amount of memory
your app needs. 

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"Victor Bazarov" <v.Abazarov@attAbi.com> wrote in message news:<J2yjb.292805$mp.232723@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>...
> "Unforgiven" <jaapd3000@hotmail.com> wrote...
> > I have an application, where I continuously get new binary data input, in
> > the form of a char*. This data comes from the Windows Multimedia wave
>  input
> > functions, but that's not important. What it means is that every 2
>  seconds,
> > I need to add 22050 bytes to an ever expanding buffer. I have no idea at
>  the
> > beginning how large this buffer would need to be.
> 
> What do you need the buffer for?  Do you use it right away?  Does
> the buffer have to be contiguous during your input?
> 
> If not, use a list<your22050bytes>.  I suspect that even if you do
> need to use the "stream" right away, the list is quick enough for
> all your streaming needs.
> 
> > [...]
> 
> Victor

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