14 Dec
2002
14 Dec
'02
8:24 p.m.
On Sunday 15 December 2002 01.10, Steve Harris wrote:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 12:25:46 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
OTOH, have you looked at how the VST host/plugin interface is
actually implemented? Pretty "interesting". :-) (And here we worry
about function call overhead...)
Well, I don't exactly know Objective C, but
I've read up on the
basics, for reasons I can't remember... (Probably to see if it
was the "C++ done right" I was looking for. In that case, it was
not, because the contructs are *higher* level; not lower.)
Yes, that was my conclusion too. Its much cleaner than c++, but its
pretty slow. I'm quite supprised that Apple went for it for DSP
code. There are ways of speeding up the message passing, but
the're
pretty ugly, and they dont solve it 100%. My current prefered
solution is OO style C, which is pretty clean, but doesn't give you
inheritnace and a few other things, which would be nice.
Well, there's always struct-in-struct + typecasts... ;-)
Seriously though, I think a plugin API of this kind *needing* C++
would suggest that there's something wrong with the design. It
shouldn't be that complex.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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