Re: [linux-audio-dev] Davis votes for MP, news at 11

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Davis votes for MP, news at 11
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 18:00:40 EEST


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:04:06AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> I cannot imagine how I would write GUI's in the style I use (at the
> source code level) if the GUI had to be in a separate process from the
> actual "dsp" code. My use of libraries like libsigc++ to provide
> anonymous callbacks makes MVC programming a joy, and this would

Much as I like the MP model, it would be a shame to loose the rock solid
ardour performance. You have ardour running inside AES now, so can't we
specify the same conditions in a LAAGA SP mode? It would require all SP
apps to use gtk-- and so on I presume? Doesn't seem that large a price to
pay.

> Anyone suprised? :)

Actually, yes!

If anyones prepared to read more of my ramblings, theres a few restrictions I
think would make it easier to write efficient code:

Known nominal 0db value (e.g. 1.0f)
Minimum sample rate (e.g. 44.1k's)
Guaranteed 2^n block size
Guaranteed only one running invocation per instance

A way for apps to indicate thier current latency would be good too.

I'm sure there's more but thats enough to be going on with, and I suspect
some of them will get veto'd anyway. ;)

- Steve


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