Between yesterday and today I started playing and integrating some known memory allocators that provide a mean to have a realigned malloc.
Here some numbers from an h264 + ac3 in mkv file ./avconv_normal bench: utime=140.790s maxrss=30508kB ./avconv_tlsf bench: utime=140.026s maxrss=46428kB ./avconv_jemalloc bench: utime=137.821s maxrss=56532kB jemalloc is surprisingly fast, tlsf is slightly faster than the normal dlmalloc used in glibc. _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list libav-devel@libav.org https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel