Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] MidiShare Linux
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 17:04:39 EEST
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Stephane Letz wrote:
> >That means if you want to be sure that it works everywhere
> >you have to ship the SMP version.
>
> I think using the "lock" instruction is costly when used in UP. You should
> better provide
> two versions, actually by using the __SMP__ flag.
> We will publish some benchmark to show that.
Hmm... This is definitely a reason to make sure that plugins don't
have to deal with these kinds of lock-free interfaces directly.
(As to MuCoS, the idea is to base the plugin API on simple, open
structs and inline code/macros. Plugins won't run in separate threads
anyway, and in the rare cases where you really want to do that, the
hosts will deal with these matters as a part of the IPC.)
//David
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