Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] Memory (de-)allocation problem

[Benjamin H. <be...@ke...>]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 17:26, Matthew J. Sahagian wrote:
> Fair enough, but the search for the contiguous memory still seems like reimplementation.  Even if you want a couple frames of 24 songs, you could easily split those frame and then use the sizes of those for your malloc call.  Either way your ultimate goal it to just keep track of them with an index. so to speak.  Then once someone flips to that song it rips those initial frames from the memory location and starts to read the rest off of the disk.  Either way, my statement about reimplementing had to do with finding contiguous blocks of memory, which seems for the most part, unnecessary, assuming you have a good enough method for tracking where the initial frames are loaded.  One idea I had originally was a RAMDISK (which would also seem to solve your problem rather easily (at least with whole songs).  I was looking forward to a RAMDISk for various parts of podzilla -- including graphics that get displayed as part of the software.  Maybe the RAMDISK could simply be pushed f!
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>  ard for what you're going to use it for... not sure.

I still wonder why you bother... use a ring buffer :)

Ben.