[linux-audio-dev] anyone interested to develop a new apps ?

Jan Depner eviltwin69 at cableone.net
Sun Oct 24 14:07:47 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 08:43, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Jan Depner hat gesagt: // Jan Depner wrote:
> 
> > 	Geez Frank, you went and got serious on me ;-)  
> 
> I just took it as a cheap excuse to do some more propaganda, sorry. ;)
> 
	There's nothing wrong with a little good propaganda.

> > Always remember though - scripting languages are not compiled so
> > they're much slower. 
> 
> Not Pd. (Or AMS,...) Those modular systems are very optimized tools,
> which have no real speed disadvantage compared to directly compiled
> applications. There is a little bit of overhead, but nothing to worry
> about in almost all realworld scenarios. Pd even can use plain C as
> scripting language which is compiled on-the-fly using Kjetil's k_cext
> external, but I admit, that's a bit exotic (though it actually works).
> 

	I was thinking more in terms of Python, PHP, Perl, Bash.

Jan





More information about the Linux-audio-dev mailing list