[LAD] [LAU] Kim did the switch to Linux

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 11:30:33AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> Apropos wasting resources. A lot of Linux audio applications don't have 
> EQs by default for the channels of a mixer, we need to add 20 LADSPA EQs 
> to 20 channels. There might be OS X and Windows applications that come 
> with an EQ by default for every added channel. Do you think each time 
> you add a new channel, they also add a copy of the same EQ routine to 
> the RAM or do you think one routine for the EQ is shared by all 
> channels, one after the other, but anyhow with different EQ setting?

The code will be shared, and for a typical channel strip EQ
it's  peanuts anyway. Then there's per-instance data which
again for an normal EQ isn't anything to worry about.
It's the GUI that takes up most of the resources. Most
of the GUI code will be shared with other parts, but the
data won't.

Ciao,

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FA

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