From c029ea39bd58905d7a15ad7e1eb7991447606974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Niedermayer Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:10:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] AVDictionary: warn about its shortcommings and mention available replacements. Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer --- libavutil/dict.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/libavutil/dict.h b/libavutil/dict.h index 421be32244..dc575eb76c 100644 --- a/libavutil/dict.h +++ b/libavutil/dict.h @@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ /** * @file Public dictionary API. + * @deprecated + * AVDictionary is provided for compatibility with libav. It is both in + * implementation as well as API inefficient. It doesnt scale and is + * be extreemly slow with large dictionaries. + * It is recommanded that new code uses our tree container from tree.c/h + * where applicable. + * Which uses AVL trees to achive O(log n) performance */ #ifndef AVUTIL_DICT_H