[gmpi] Re: Topic 3: Cross Platform
- From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:00:33 +0000
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:42:47 -0600, Ben Loftis wrote:
> Instead I think we should talk about a cross-platform "control" API.
>
> Why not follow the precedent set by the MIDI standard? (Particularly since
> this will be an MMA undertaking? :) ) For all of its faults, the MIDI
> standard is one of the most succesful specifications in the history of
> digital electronics. Why not define GMPI as a "byte stream" API similar to
> MIDI? The MIDI spec has demonstrated that a byte stream can be transmitted
> effectively over a physical wire or between software apps on the same host
> equally well.
Interesting idea
The dowside is that a packetised protocol has a larger overhead and will
require a parser to be implemnted, or provided to, each plugin.
I have no real feeling for what the overhead would be, but in the case of
64bit data I suspect it will be significant.
- Steve
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