Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Suupporting various sample library formats and engines

[Matthias W. <mat...@in...>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:26:32PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> > In order to provide the whole features that a sample format provides, we
> > have to represent the parameters in linuxsampler. But that means we
> > allready have a "grand unified sample" system.
> 
> We dont have to do that, we can have format specific engines, the question
> is whether its a good idea or not.

Which means reimplementing similar code for every engine as you pointed
out before. Maybe its possible to extract some kind of a greatest common
divisor that builds the skeleton for every engine.

> 
> Benno's plan to use dynamic compilation units would make the engines quick
> to construct, they won't be as fast as ticghtly hand coded engines, but it
> may be worth it for the RAD features.

Hm, I recognized, that it's not obvious to me what parts should be
dynamically compiled. Benno, could you explain in more detail?

matthias