Re: [LAD] libsndfile version 1.0.24

Is this what you are talking about?
http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html

Victor
On 24 Mar 2011, at 18:16, Paul Davis wrote:

> torben already did some exploring of one potentially interesting use
> of sndfile's virtual IO api: make it use the async I/O options now
> available with linux. this has some potential big gains for disk
> throughput for an app like ardour.
>
> On 3/24/11, Jeremy Salwen <jeremysalwen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> Basically, instead of reading from a file, libsndfile can be passed
>> a set of
>> functions to read data from an arbitrary source.
>>
>> So for example, if you write a set of functions which will read a
>> sound file
>> from a memory block or a network location, you can pass them to
>> libsndfile,
>> and it will use them to load the data from memory or over the
>> network, even
>> if it doesn't actually exist as a file.
>>
>> This is the "virtual IO functionality". He has simply released a
>> description of this API so that it is easy to understand and use.
>> You can
>> view it on the website here: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/api.html
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Victor Lazzarini
>> <Victor.Lazzarini@email-addr-hiddenwrote:
>>
>>> Whats does this mean?
>>>
>>> Victor
>>>
>>> On 24 Mar 2011, at 00:32, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>>
>>> * Document virtual I/O functionality.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dr Victor Lazzarini
>>> Senior Lecturer
>>> Dept. of Music
>>> NUI Maynooth Ireland
>>> tel.: +353 1 708 3545
>>> Victor dot Lazzarini AT nuim dot ie
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Dr Victor Lazzarini
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Music
NUI Maynooth Ireland
tel.: +353 1 708 3545
Victor dot Lazzarini AT nuim dot ie

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