Re: [fluid-dev] parallel loading of soundfont samples

[Hamish Moffatt]

On 30/10/20 11:12 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> So now I have #3 it's not really important for me to speed up the 
> loading any further, but I posted this just for interest's sake and 
> I'm glad it's generated some discussion, and I think other 
> applications can benefit too. In order to get the best out of modern 
> CPUs we have to use more threads as the cores aren't getting much faster. 


The next problem is that I would need to compile with Visual Studio, 
which doesn't support OpenMP 4.0, only 2.0 (200203)..... :)

There are some 4.0ish extensions, but I could not get the branch to 
compile with this enabled. The compile says "fluid_defsfont.c(393,21): 
error C3001: 'task': expected an OpenMP directive name".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/simd-extension-to-c-openmp-in-visual-studio/


cheers

Hamish