[LAD] LV2-C++-Tools

David Robillard d at drobilla.net
Mon Mar 26 21:21:37 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 09:37 +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote:
> > > "Shared data plus locking" is a pretty crap model in general, really.
> > > When people talk about all the complications that threads introduce,
> > > they're really talking about this.  Shared mutable state is the
> > cancer of multi-threaded programming.
> 
> This should be tattooed on every newbie. ;)
> 
> Visualize your GUI running on a 64-bit iPad in Madrid, and your DSP running
> on 32-bit Ubuntu in Seattle. Design your API accordingly.....

Indeed.

With respect to plugins, I deeply regret it's even *possible* to do
otherwise, but unfortunately sometimes reality gets in the way :)

-dr





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