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From: "Evan Martin" <martine@danga.com>
To: Elthariel <elthariel@free.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Could be Caml a good language for sound manipulation ?
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:35:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041129033526.GA45540@trout> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41AA5C8C.2010503@free.fr>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:17:32AM +0100, Elthariel wrote:
> I'm quite new in oCaml world, I partially learnt it in my school (EPITA 
> / Paris) and I'm going to finish this next year. I'm not really ease in 
> english so my question will be short : do you think Caml coul be a nice 
> langage for sound manipulation implementation, as Synthetizers, effects 
> plugins ? I doesn't ask for answer in term of performance which should 
> be I guess quite good :p, but more in term of software design and 
> language facility.

The main problem I've encountered is that if you allocate memory while
processing large streams of data, your program ends up spending a lot of
its processing time in the garbage collector.

-- 
Evan Martin
martine@danga.com
http://neugierig.org


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-29  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-28 23:17 Elthariel
2004-11-29  3:21 ` Julian Brown
2004-11-29  3:35 ` Evan Martin [this message]

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