Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux-friendly MIDI interface boxes?
From: Eli Brandt (eli_AT_v.gp.cs.cmu.edu)
Date: ke loka 13 1999 - 21:23:53 EDT
Christopher Jeris wrote:
> Basically I want to take an Objective Caml interpreter
> (http://caml.inria.fr/) and extend it with the ALSA sequencer API, then
> build a set of higher-order functional operations for manipulating synth
> patches and midi sequences.
Nifty. I approve.
Have you looked at Haskore? http://www.haskell.org/haskore/
Some maybe-useful ideas about how to handle music vs. MIDI. It's all
in Haskell, naturally, which is not as practical a system as O'Caml.
> I am hoping the MIDI protocol is slow enough
> in relation to current processors that I might not even have to
> micromanage the garbage collector too much when it comes time to handle
> sequences.
Like Gc.full_major() every millisecond? :-)
What the world needs is for somebody to figure out how to package
modern GC technology in a modular way, so that language implementations
1) use it, and 2) don't get inextricably entangled with the GC they use.
Surprisingly hard, apparently.
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Eli Brandt | eli+@cs.cmu.edu | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~eli/
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