[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Mon Dec 9 19:50:01 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01.07, Tim Goetze wrote:
> Steve Harris wrote:
> >Linuxsampler is using a similar approach, but its not blockless
> > (and it wouldn't be noticably better if it was).
> >
> >Still if anyone ever wants to tackle this they can have a fair
> > chunk of my spare brain cycles.
>
> if it's going to run blockless, we'll need all your spare
> cpu cycles as well i'm afraid.
>
> ;) tim

Not if it generates machine code. That way, it could (theoretically) 
be about as efficient as the corresponding "effect" implemented by 
hand in C. There doesn't have to be any more per-sample overhead than 
in the inner loop of your traditional plugins.


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