Re: [fluid-dev] Support for SF4 (FLAC) format?

[Marcus Weseloh]

Am Do., 23. Jan. 2020 um 21:05 Uhr schrieb Garth Hjelte <address@hidden>:

> I do think that the decompression overhead is less than the loadtime 
> overhead, but not enough to justify yet another file format.

Not on my system, it seems. Decompression happens on a single core,
and it's 100% busy when decompressing the samples vs. 10-20% when
loading uncompressed samples. (960Mhz ARM Cortex A7). Might be that
libsndfile is not the most efficient way to decompress flac, not sure.

Cheers
Marcus