[iiwusynth-devel] Re: unloading a soundfont

[Antoine Schmitt]

:::::::::28/11/02::::15:12 +0100::::Peter Hanappe:::::::::
> When? At the next load request? That might not be good enough, because
> the risk exists that soundfont stays in memory for a long time. At every
> 'noteon' and 'noteoff' event? That may not be good, too. That means that
> real-time threads can no longer call this function!

I dont understand. What do you mean ?

:::::::::28/11/02::::15:12 +0100::::Peter Hanappe:::::::::
> Yes, we could spin off a timer thread to do the work. It checks every N
> msec (~1000 msec) if the soundfont is no longer used (refcount=0) and
> frees it if possible.
> This doesn't work on macos 9, though (can't free memory in interupt).

I didn't think about this... Mmm.

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