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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-06-28 04:10:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2011-06-28 04:10:40 +0200 |
| commit | c029ea39bd58905d7a15ad7e1eb7991447606974 (patch) | |
| tree | e931d906041b21beee9ac5e4508763622192b9b1 /libavutil/dict.h | |
| parent | 7b7c47c8f70e51d3835a6153c3e467e59acf8a8b (diff) | |
| download | ffmpeg-c029ea39bd58905d7a15ad7e1eb7991447606974.tar.gz | |
AVDictionary: warn about its shortcommings and mention available replacements.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil/dict.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavutil/dict.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/dict.h b/libavutil/dict.h index 421be32244..dc575eb76c 100644 --- a/libavutil/dict.h +++ b/libavutil/dict.h @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ /** * @file Public dictionary API. + * @deprecated + * AVDictionary is provided for compatibility with libav. It is both in + * implementation as well as API inefficient. It doesnt scale and is + * be extreemly slow with large dictionaries. + * It is recommanded that new code uses our tree container from tree.c/h + * where applicable. + * Which uses AVL trees to achive O(log n) performance */ #ifndef AVUTIL_DICT_H |