[sane-devel] proposel for buffer size increase frontends scanimage ..

Gerhard Jaeger gerhard@gjaeger.de
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:31:40 +0100


On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:19, Johannes Berg wrote:
> gerard klaver schrieb:
> 
> >In this way the write cycle in sane_read will be reduced and is it
> >possible to write a image from for example a 640 x 480  webcam in
> >one cycle to the frontend buffer.
> >  
> >
> What's the advantage? If there really is an advantage, I think it should 
> probably be made dynamic instead. Using this much space on the stack 
> isn't really a good thing IMHO.
> 
That would be my comment too. 1Mib on the stack - hmmm, I don't like this 
idea. If we really need such an amount of mem, use malloc!

My 2 cents
Gerhard