Skip coercing to bytes
in merge_frames
#3960
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As the frames we receive are typically mutable, non-
bytes
objects likebytearray
s or NumPyndarray
s, coercing tobytes
at this stage triggers a copy of all frames. As we are going to toss those copied versions anyways when joining them into a largerbytes
object, this ends up being wasteful with memory. Fortunatelybytes.join(...)
accepts any and allbytes
-like objects. So instead just pass them all through as-is tobytes.join(...)
, which is free and doesn't require a copy. Should cutdown on the memory usage in this part of the code.