Re: [LAD] ANN: convoLV2 0.2

On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 19:24 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:38:48PM -0400, David Robillard wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 11:38 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Zita-convolver works on Linux and OSX
> >
> > ... where it locks a mutex in the process thread.
>
> Yes, the mutex being part of a condition variable,
> used to emulate sem_t since OSX has an incomplete
> implementation of those.

The appropriate thing to use on OSX is mach semaphores. This code is
terrible.

> (A "blocking in a real-time thread is acceptable" argument)

> (Hilarious appeal to irrelevant authority)

Mmhmm.

-dr

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