Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Programming language & other issues

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:06:31 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Steve even suggested to use his LADSPA XML templates that we could
> inject in source form in order to generate (almost) arbitrary signal
> flow structures that compiled are almost as fast as a hand coded version
>  since all calls to the LADSPA API get eliminated due to code inlining.

An advantage to this is that we have have perfect symmetry between the
backend, transparent dynamic compilation accleration and LADSPA plugins.

Eg. If we support chains of plugins the user can mess about with these as
much as they like, then hit the compile button and a few seconds later
everything will get faster without changing the sound. Obviously plugins
that are only available in binary form wil still have to be called, but it
will still work.

If we made the output(s) of the dynamic compilation valid LADSPA plugins
then we only need to deal with one DL binary type too.

> My paranoid nature make me tend to design systems and apps that work in
>  extreme conditions so I suggest to try to test and tune LinuxSampler
> with 2-4msec latencies from the beginning. Of course if people want to

This seems like a good policy.

- Steve