avformat/matroskaenc: Stop reallocating of Cluster buffer
The Matroska muxer uses a dynamic buffer to buffer the content of
Clusters before eventually writing them. Up until now, each time a
Cluster was written, the dynamic buffer was closed, i.e. freed; now it
is only reset, saving allocations of the AVIOContext itself, its opaque
as well as most of the reallocations of the buffer.
This is advantageous performance-wise, in particular on systems where
reallocations are slow (namely Windows). The following table shows the
decicyles for writing a frame on Linux (Ubuntu 19.10) and Windows (7)
on an x64 Haswell (to /dev/null on Linux, to stdout which is discarded
on Windows (the default values of the size and duration of clusters for
seekable output have been explicitly set in this case); in all tests,
writing CRC-32 values has been disabled in all tests; calls to the muxer's
write_packet function in write_packet() in libavformat/mux.c have been
timed; each of the following tests has been repeated 50 times):
| Windows before | Windows after | Linux before | Linux after
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A | 979437 | 192304 | 259500 | 183320
B | 715936 | 155648 | 152786 | 130879
C | 265115 | 56034 | 78496 | 53243
D | 386224 | 80307 | 128894 | 75354
E | 21732 | 10695 | 11320 | 9801
(A is a 10.2 mb/s file with a GOP length of 2s, amounting to an average
Cluster size of about 2.5 MiB; the average Cluster size of B is 1.1 MiB;
for C it is 2.35 MiB, for D it is 0.46 MiB; for E - a file with just a
single audio track of 158kb/s resulting in a Cluster size of about 100
kB, the relative gains were the smallest, probably because of the small
Cluster size.)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rheinhardt <andreas.rheinhardt@gmail.com>
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