Re: [linux-audio-dev] Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:02:34PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > Pyrex is good for making faster python libraries, which is a great
> > > thing, but it won't help with the problem that you really
> > > don't want to be running a python interpreter inside a realtime
> > > dsp system.
> >
> > That's not entirely true. I once wrote an OS where the filesystem and
> > ATA drivers were written in Python, which was accomplished by linking
> > the kernel with libpython (no joke). Lower levels, like the memory
> > manager, were written in Pyrex. In the end it was pretty slow and
> > useless, but it did run, and at one point I managed to get on IRC with
> > it :)

I didn't say it wouldn't *work*.
You're the one who said "pretty slow and worthless" :)

-PW

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