Re: [fluid-dev] Fluidsynth questions: 2.0.5 release / threading

[Stefan Westerfeld]

   Hi!

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 09:27:35AM +0200, Tom M. wrote:
> > Another question I have is related to threading. I'd like to use two 
> > fluid_synth_t* instances in two different threads with two different 
> > soundfonts to render two different midi tracks. I'm assuming that I can 
> > call fluid_synth_process() independently on these two instances from two 
> > threads and they will not interfere in any way, right?
> 
> Yes. Each synth has it's own mutex, which is used if the setting 
> "synth.threadsafe-api" is true (the default). Apart from that all synths 
> share a sample cache as global ressource, which is always mutex protected.

All right, I didn't even know that there is a sample cache so far. Suppose I
load the same huge soundfont into two different fluid_synth_t objects. Will
that double my memory usage?

And how is the situation if that soundfont was loaded from memory?

   Cu... Stefan
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