[erlang-questions] Hint erts to preallocate binary of required size

[Max Lapshin]

erlyvideo has some problems with creating mpeg-ts from mp4.

Problem is following: mp4 stores video frames in continuos blocks of 100
kbytes. MPEG-TS requires to split this 100 kbytes into small chunks of
about 180 bytes each.

Right now it takes about 10 000 microseconds to generate one megabyte of
mpeg-ts.

First problem: how can I understand if process copies these small chunks
into heap or they are still subbinary?


Second idea: can it be a good idea to tell erts that I want to allocate new
binary of 140 kbytes size and append small chunks to it with only one
copying?
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