[iiwusynth-devel] Re: Unloading soundfonts

[Antoine Schmitt]

:::::::::21/11/02::::16:36 +0200::::M. Nentwig:::::::::
> - The unload routine flags the sound font as unloaded, so that no new
> voice processes may use it.
> Then we keep the old soundfont in memory and only unload it when the
> next sound font is loaded (triggered by the 'load' function), assuming
> that all voices have finished in the meantime.

I dont like the idea of keeping the soundfont in memory (too long) 
after an unloadsoundfont is issued. A client may expect the memory to 
be released so that it can use it for other purposes (other than 
loading another soundfont), for example, in my case, as a Director 
Xtra, the memory could be used to load a large image.
Why not using the timer functions (in iiwu_sys.h) to schedule a 
callback sometime after the current buffer is done, that will do the 
cleanup ? This way, there is no need for the iiwu_idle function.


++ as