Re: AUView opening before initialzation BIG HASSLE!
Re: AUView opening before initialzation BIG HASSLE!
- Subject: Re: AUView opening before initialzation BIG HASSLE!
- From: "Jean-Alexis Montignies" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:31:02 +0200
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One of the Apple representatives on the list (Bill, I think) stated that AU
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open times to get basic properties should be kept as low as possible, in
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the tens of ms. Because of the nature of VST plug-ins (generally
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monolithic) and the way VST-AU's loader works (initialize as much as
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possible as early as possible, so crappily coded VSTs are less likely to
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crash when we ask them questions later), and also because of the way
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people tend to hoard those plugs, it makes sense for me to avoid going
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through the load sequence at all unless I absolutely have to.
It sounds more logical to handle the shortcomings of the VST format would be
better handled in VST-AU.
VST-AU could cache the required informations the first time a VST plug-in is
loaded.
Now if each host decides to cache those things its own way, prepare for some
headackes.
Jean-Alexis
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