[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging, Process-In-Place

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:51:48 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > Tim: I think the thing your missing is that the cache advantage of running
> > inplace is not that great, the memcopy is just vastly more expensive.
> 
> A light bulb did go on today when I realized the ordering issue.  Is this
> actually a common case?  It seems the ONLY time this can happen is when the
> host does a Y split.

It also makes things easier in general.
 
> <last_grasp>
> Is that really that common that it is the sole reason to shoot down
> potential other wins?
> </last_grasp>

No, I very much doubt the optimisations you would get form your solution
would outweight the cost of handling it. Plus the (design) complexity of
course.

- Steve

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