[gmpi] Re: REQ 16 !?!

  • From: Tim Hockin <thockin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:29:31 -0800

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:23:07PM +0100, Vincent Burel wrote:

> first there is redondancy between REQ 13 and REQ 15

not really - one says that plugins can indicate their non-suport of RT
running, and the other say that the host will tell the plugin which mode it
is currently doing.

> REQ 16
> - Only one DSP function is called at a time from the host ! (WHY if it's not
> with the same THIS OBJECT, What about MULTITHREADING , MULTI PROCESSING and
> HYPER THREADING !?)

Duh.  One DSP function per plugin.

> - The host may call functions from different threads (so why writing the
> sentence before !?)

Nothing to do with it.  The host might have 100 threads, and a plugin can be
called from any one of them.  All it said was that the plugin does not need
to do internal thread safety.

-- 
Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use,
suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books.  Cause and effect,
or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?


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