Re: [Rosegarden-user] 400Mhz / 64MB just for MIDI????

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 06:42, Levi Burton wrote:
>
>> My guess is that since RG is in development, it is not completely
>> optimized.
>
> No. There may be a couple of things we can improve on, but the
> requirements are unlikely to get any smaller. Rather, I see them
> getting higher.

I think both statements are true to an extent.  The requirements
probably will get higher, simply because future versions are likely
to include more features and depend on more featureful (or bloated,
if you like) versions of KDE.  On the other hand, the application
may at the same time get quicker -- in many cases the KDE3 version
is faster than the KDE2 version was, current CVS versions of
Rosegarden have significantly faster notation code than 0.8.5 had,
and the performance of MIDI and audio I/O and so on will certainly
improve in future versions.

Bear in mind that a 400MHz/64MB machine would also be a fairly
reasonable required spec for running most of the available office
applications on Linux.  Rosegarden has a lot in common with those
from a GUI standpoint.  The fact that it also does MIDI is almost
an irrelevance.


Chris