buffer question
I am recording to 8 buffers in a patch and I have send them a clear message followed by a size 20000 message when I needed to delete them.
The size message is necessary because am cropping the first to the actual length and then resizing the 7 others to this size before recording to them.
This has worked great but I was wondering if it is the most CPU & thread efficient way of doing it.
Would it be enough if I just sended a size message since it is also somhow deleting the buffer ?
I have a feeling that the clear message is more heavy since it it is setting all the samples to zero.
Thanks,
Thomas
Thanks a lot for the test patch. I look forward to explore and test
I have omitted the clear message and use only the size 20000 message - and it works perfect.
But I am still wondering what the difference between "size" and "clear" is corewise. In the reference is says that "clear" is writing zeros to the buffer - but what is "size" really doing ? Is it also writing zeros or is it just removing the pointer to the sample array ?
Because then it might be more cpu gentle !!
thomas