[linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin

STEFFL, ERIK (SBCSI) es6269 at sbc.com
Fri Oct 18 13:50:01 UTC 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nick [mailto:nixx at nixx.org.uk]
> 
> > I think gcc is in general not the best choice when you want 
> to have highly 
> > optimized code. I had no problems with C++ so far. You 
> should avoid to use 
> > pointers when ever possible and use references instead. 
> RTSynth is written 
> > in C++ and it performs quite well i think...
> > 
> > - Stefan
> 
> erm, sorry, but why not use pointers?

  it's dangerous... null pointers, memory leaks etc. tendency is not to use
pointers unless absolutely neccessary...

  as for the context above, I don't think it has anything to do with
performance (should be same).

	erik



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