[Vorbis-dev] Large Packets and page size...

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I'm just wondering about some guidelines on page size... For example if you 
have a stream where all packets are consistently of size > 40,000 bytes (but 
less than 65000), is it appropriate to just put them 1 per page ie have 
large pages.

Packets in this range incur the page overhead about 10 times each... and 
most of the pages have no useful information.

What are the pro's and cons of 10x 4k pages per packet (~1.5% overhead) vs 
1x 40k page per packet (~0.5% overhead)

As for pro's i can think of...

Less buffer manipulation reconstructing packets.
Less overhead
Less seek misses.

Cons

Page buffer needs to be large... (but if it's a issue of memory... it still 
needs to allocate that quantity for the packet) and in theory it should eb 
able to handle the maximum size page anyway.

Anything else ?

Why the recommendation of 4k pages... it makes sense in terms of small 
packets... but does this justification for this recommendation still hold 
when packets are very large.

Cheers,

Zen.