[opus] Regarding stack usage in Opus

[Jean-Marc Valin]

Actually, the code already has an option for using the heap rather than
the stack, see NONTHREADSAFE_PSEUDOSTACK in the code. As the name
implies, it's not thread-safe though.

Cheers,

	Jean-Marc

On 20/09/13 01:29 AM, Rhishikesh Agashe wrote:
> Hi,
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> We have observed that the stack usage in Opus Encoder/Decoder is
> enormous(50-60Kb approx). As we all know, in embedded systems, high
> stack usage is discouraged.
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> How are we planning to take care of that?
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> One idea is to allocate the required memory on heap and pass it on as an
> argument to the main Opus API and allocate the internal buffers used by
> the internal modules on the allocated buffer. This is currently not
> supported on Opus.
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> I believe, Opus is going to be a part of Android in the near future and
> since Android is meant for Embedded domain, I just thought of raising
> this issue.
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> I am new to this group, hence if this has already been discussed, please
> point me to the correct mailing list.
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> Thanks and Regards,
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> Rhishi
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