Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Switching ffmpeg.c to a threaded architecture

[Soft Works <softworkz@hotmail.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of Paul
> B Mahol
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:52 PM
> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> devel@ffmpeg.org>
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Switching ffmpeg.c to a threaded
> architecture
> 
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:10 PM Soft Works <softworkz@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> > > Anton Khirnov
> > > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:29 AM
> > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-
> > > devel@ffmpeg.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Switching ffmpeg.c to a threaded
> > > architecture
> > >
> > > Quoting Soft Works (2022-04-08 17:27:10)
> > > > > Furthermore, remember that this is just the first step. There
> will
> > > be
> > > > > further patchsets converting the other components. I intend to
> > > > > upstream
> > > > > them gradually one after the other. Your suggestion would
> require
> > > me
> > > > > to
> > > > > instead write the whole thing at once, fighting rebase
> conflicts
> > > all
> > > > > the
> > > > > way, and then submit it as a giant utterly unreviewable
> patchset.
> > > >
> > > > That's not what I meant, but anyway it's not worth discussing
> when
> > > > it's a minority opinion.
> > > >
> > > > Just a practical question instead for planning purposes:
> > > >
> > > > Which timeframe do you expect for the whole process?
> > > > When do you plan to start
> > >
> > > If you mean "start pushing the patches", then I intend to do that
> as
> > > they are reviewed and approved. I hope to send the upstreamable
> > > version
> > > of this set this week, if nobody has strong objectsions then I
> might
> > > push it after vacation, i.e. late April/early May.
> > >
> > > > and for how long do you think it will take until all further
> > > patchsets
> > > > will be submitted/applied?
> > >
> > > This is very hard to estimate accurately. A pessimistic guess
> assuming
> > > I
> > > get stuck on every stupid thing would be end of this year, but I
> hope
> > > for things to go much faster.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I'm asking because I need to decide about the
> > way I'm going to proceed with the subtitle filtering patchset.
> >
> > I think I will have to keep and continue this in private during this
> > procedure as I don't have the resources to regularly adapt and sync
> > from my (5.0 based) working branch back to the master branch.
> >
> >
> That is big waste of resource when not implementing thing properly.

From my point of view, somebody who has never given any detailed 
reviews, didn't state what exactly(!) he would consider to be "improper"
and never made any suggestion how the implementation would need to 
be changed to become "proper" - doesn't have the right to make such
claims.

softworkz



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