Re: [ecasound] use of -lhoard in ecasound

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Subject: Re: [ecasound] use of -lhoard in ecasound
From: Kai Vehmanen (k_AT_eca.cx)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 16:00:50 EEST

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jeremy Hall wrote:

> Could we have a config option that uses libhoard if it is found? This can
> be found at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/emery/hoard you simply want to
> add -lhoard if it is found.

I'd be suprised if libhoard boosted ecasound's performance. Nearly all
performance sensitive code is written to be rt-safe. And to be rt-safe,
(de)allocation of memory is out of the question. So libhoard would only
boost the non-realtime parts, where performance isn't really a problem. 

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