LADPA (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] emagic (logic) drops VST support under OS X)

[Stefan Kost]

Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>>that doesn't solve the generic malloc problem (strings of arbitrary
>>size) but it does look attractive for the common case of fixed-size
>>events.
> 
> 
> yes, and it would be less than a few hours to get it working.
> 
> the problem is that many of the interesting data types are variable
> sized. MIDI is the most obvious.
> 
For midi: wouldn't it be possible to allocate block of the upper bound-size.
I mean midi is constrained by the transfer-rate. Commands can be placed into
the buffer at the point in time when they should occure. Ofcourse they need to check
if the time-slot is still free and should use the next free one.

Stefan
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