[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] AES init

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 07:38:15PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > Personally I'm against runtime initialization. All the data is
> > constant! Include these tables as static arrays in the text/rodata
> > segment and they'll use less memory and the race condition goes away
> > permanently without hackish solutions like this.
> 
> The only problem is that it would consume memory needlessly, still it is
> less complicated than the other solution proposed.

?? It will consume extra disk space, but not any more memory. Actually
it will consume _less_ in some ways, since it can be swapped out to the
original binary instead of using swap space if you really need all that
memory.

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger