[flac-dev] Patch to add buffering to decoding too

[Janne Hyvärinen]

On 27.9.2014 8:54, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Janne Hyvärinen wrote:
>
>> Removed buffer size increase. Only tells the filesize to Windows now.
> Would it not be possible to do the same when encoding? Of course we
> don't know the exact size of the output file, but guessing at 70% of
> 80% of the input file size would be correct in most cases? Are there
> any negative consequences of overestimating like this?
>

Estimating the size too large while other processes are writing to the 
drive at the same time would leave a gap behind the file. My fear was 
that writing thousands of files one after another, and many of them 
leaving these empty spaces, would eventually cause the drive to be 
sparsely filled resulting in all further large file writes to being 
spread all around the drive.
Underestimating a little would of course not cause this.