Re: [fluid-dev] Patch for fast midi file rendering

[Antoine Schmitt]

Le 22 mars 09 à 06:46, David Henningsson a écrit :

> But if you ask me; I think the system timers in the player/sequencer
> should be skipped altogether and then no parameter would be needed at
> all. Especially if the system timer solution has concurrency  
> problems...?

I totally agree. There is no timer like the sample timer ! ;)
The only potential drawback would be CPU hit on the  
fluid_synth_write_s16, which can be easily optimized (not calling the  
sample timer if there is no "client", etc..).

> > * Define a new "slave-timer" member of _fluid_synth_t, and  
> > initialize it
> > according to the corresponding setting in new_fluid_synth().
>
> As we're deep into details and nomenclature here: IMHO it's time to  
> skip
> the words "slave timer" and use "sample timer" instead, as it says  
> more
> about what kind of timer it is.


I agree too; "sample timer" is very explicit.

My 2 cents...

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