[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging
- From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 21:12:09 +0200
On Saturday 24 May 2003 20.33, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:35:11 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > So the stereo-swapper would say I can process in-L into out-R and
> > vice versa. The process call would then be literally empty.
>
> The stereo swapper is an uninteresgting corner case, please dont
> optimise for it.
>
> Only the host knows wether inplace processing is an optimisation or
> not, so only it can request it.
>
> I think we should either not require plugins to be inplace safe
> (the easest optioon), require them to be (a bit of a pain, but more
> efficient in the general case) or make them say wether they are or
> not (more efficient, more compex). Other solutions are just more
> complex and dont help.
It's just that it's not as simple as "in-place safe or not". It's a
property of a group of inputs and outputs; not the whole plugin.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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