[haiku-development] Re: (media) related questions
- From: Michael Pfeiffer <michael.w.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:40:49 +0200
1. If I understood the code correctly, the mixer itself converts
buffers twice.
First each incoming buffer gets converted to an internal format
(float) and in
the mixing thread they get reconverted to the format the driver
needs (int16 in
my case/regular?). This attempt is easy to use, but I think it is
over headed.
Shouldn't it be better, if only one conversion is done during the
mixing? Of
course this means, that one needs to have a lot of methods for
converting
everything, but I guess that an unoptimized attempt can be done
using templates
for this, while the optimized routines can still be used as
specifications.
I am against premature optimizations, but that's just my opinion.
First question is: is it a bottleneck? If not do not optimize it.
If it is, does the optimized version gain a substantial speedup so that
the (probably) more complicated (to understand and maintain) algorithm
is justified?
Again just IMHO, that should not hinder you to do it anyway.
Regards,
Michael
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