why not? take a look at the core of a bunch of DSP code - there's nothing platform specific there. my guess is that you might be
>platform-dependent code. I have no expectation that the plug-in >implementation will be platform independent, even on the filter side. I
why not? take a look at the core of a bunch of DSP code - there's nothing platform specific there. my guess is that you might be thinking of stuff that uses the Altivec, or SSE2 or some other h/w-specific set of instructions to try to speed things up, particularly those for custom DSP processor boards.
this is not really what i've been thinking of when i say "platform-specific", though its clearly part of the meaning of the term. the "platform" i'm thinking of is the operating system and to a lesser extent the compiler.
if people choose to write plugins with specific Altivec/PowerCore/UAD/56K code, that's an entirely different story to me than including OS-specific calls that really have nothing to do with DSP at all.
its still clearly an issue with "cross-platform" support, but is much less important in my mind. if you write only Altivec code, you've just written a plugin that is (more or less) exclusively for PPC systems. GMPI didn't force you to do that, but allowed you to. what i want to avoid is a situation where developers have to make OS-specific calls to get things done, thus being forced to write non-cross-OS code by a weakness in GMPI.
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