6 Sep
2024
6 Sep
'24
6:31 p.m.
On Fri Sep 6 18:19:03 2024 +0000, Derek Lesho wrote:
To 4: I think the fact that after all those years something as simple as passing through media data to an api is still being wrangled with and stretched to fit our purposes this much, which has led most of the developers working on it to come to the conclusion that it needs a change, is enough to let go of the sink cost feeling.
But... it's not. The problem is solved; it's been solved for quite some time now.
There have been two changes to the area of buffer passing: once when the PE/Unix conversion was introduced, and once to add zero-copy support. That hardly seems like a constant wrangling.