[gmpi] Re: Topic 7: Audio packaging

  • From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:27:02 +0200

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 21.51, Chris Grigg wrote:
> >One thing that (I dont think) has been touched on is wether
> > plugins should be able to tell if some of its inputs are left
> > unconnected, and wether the plugin should get a buffer of 0.0's
> > on that input, or NULL (or requivalent).
> >
> >- Steve
>
> Null buffer ptr would be the simplest, eh?

Yes. And a public silent buffer in the host interface, so plugins 
without silence optimizations don't have to allocate their own (and 
cause unnecessary cache thrashing) when the get NULL connections.


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