Re: How to package SuperCollider (or, whats the deal with multiarch)
Mario Lang wrote:
>Yes, thanks for the nice demonstration, so memcpy
>is not really the problem, however, changing the amount of bits
>used for a single slot is going to be... QUoting the author,
>going to more than 64bit would be a loss of performance, going
>to less than 64bit would be a loss of precision, and using
>a struct with a separate tag field would increase memory
>usage by at least factor two, due to alignment...
>
>I can very well see why he does not want to make one of
>these changes just to make his code run on an arch
>it already runs on (through 32bit compatibility).
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I'd strongly advise the author to avoid such hacks and write proper
portable code. Unless he wants his package to be another OpenOffice.org.
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