14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
3:04 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:20:42PM +0200, stefan kersten wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:09:33AM -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
You sped a lot of your time when your writing plugins shaving a few cycles
of work here and there to make things more efficient, introducing an
intepreter into the mix just makes that a lot harder.
When people think they want a VM or interpreter they often want garbage
collection, generally garbage collection is not relatime safe. There
are relatime garbage collectors, but they're not common and they're
extremly complicated.
Given that (Objective) C(++) has the best math libraries, debugging tools
and is very efficient I dont see any reason for using any other general
purpose language. Faust is another matter however.
FWIW, you can compile Matlab into C, but actually Matlab/Octave is not
that appropriate for writing plugins as it's designed and optimised for
complete matricies, not rolling buffers.
- Steve
How do you do realtime in an interpreted
language? How
can you guarantee the interpreter won't do something
that's not RT safe during a critical section?
by properly designing the interpreter?