[LAD] "enhanced event port" LV2 extension proposal

[David Olofson]

On Friday 30 November 2007, Dave Robillard wrote:
[...]
> I do agree we should not be adding crufty features to support
> massive buffers, if that's what you mean.  It's easier to just split
> the cycle anyway.

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Sure, one *could* have a use for 
really huge buffers (say, running large FFTs without intermediate 
buffering), but to me, that seems too far out that one should have 
everyone deal with 32:32 event timestamps for that reason alone.


[...cache footprint, buffers etc...]
> A clever host can just use the same, say, 2 buffers (stereo audio),

I'm assuming any serious host implementation does that, but that 
doesn't help when some plugins are using more than 1-2 audio inputs. 
Even so, it shouldn't really be an issue unless huge buffers - like 
>=65536 samples - are used.


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