Re: [fluid-dev] SoundFont Memory Sharing between fluidsynth instances

[Dave Serls]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:58:58 +0200
Lutz Morelater <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am planning to run several (at least three) instances of fluidsynth 
> (without 
> qsynth) at the same time.
> 
> Do these share memory space so that I can save memory space when loading 
> large 
> soundfont files?
> 
> So, let's say, when I load "Mymusic.SF2" into instance #1 of fluidsynth, 
> would 
> instance #2 and #3 use the very same memory area of this soundfont, if I want 
> to use the same sounds as in #1 in #2 and #3? So that all three instances 
> would use the same soundfont in memory?
> 
  No.
  If you use qsynth, built for soundfont sharing, the memory will be shared.
  That's because the executable fluidsynth has no way of locating other
  fluidsynth processes (it's basically a front end for the fluidsynth API).
  Always wanted to patch the front-end (fluidsynth.c) to support this,

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