[vorbis-dev] Vorbis memory consumption

[Monty]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:39:59AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Vorbis need not use so much decode memory, but our code happens to do
> > so.  Drastically reducing memory usage would mostly require
> > redesigning how the codebook code unpacks codebooks; now that Vorbis
> > officially encourages only lattice VQ, there's no reason to have a
> > N-dimensional codebook fully always unpacked into an array of size
> > values^N.
> > 
> > (This is the cause of most of the large footprint)
> 
> The actual huffman decode tree is even bigger...

Well, I guess I'll go fix that now.  Eliminating the decode tree is a
fun little algorithm trick.

Monty

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