On 11/24/2012 02:27 AM, Jan Newmarch wrote:
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:26 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
That is a very valid point; we might not strive to eliminate the average
CPU as much as the worst-case CPU, even if both are important.
Maybe you could run "perf top -d 1" and monitor that,
Btw, Chris,
I remember you having a MIDI file where you would slide up and down the
piano with the sustain pedal down; I think you used it to test voice
overflow, but maybe that would be an interesting test case here as well?
I'm thinking that it would constantly "overload" the engine in such
Back when I used to have a 450 MHz machine, I remember avoiding
softsynths in general for the same reason. If you wanted to do music
production on such a machine, you really had to use hardware synths,
whether the sounds from a Sound Blaster AWE32 or an external unit
connected via MIDI.
-~Chris
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