At Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:31:04 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 09:10:23AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > They also differ in the type of the cache variable. You could do > > > something with macros but it'd not be terribly pleasant. > > > Hm, this can be tricky. Meanwhile, we could have it always int, > > instead of different types. The amount of memory you save by > > supporting different size might be more than the waste of 3 bytes for > > 1 byte data array. > > Given the size of the register maps for modern chips with visible DSPs > in them the overhead can be non-trivial. Doing this also inhibits > operations like doing bulk writes of data from cache (which we don't do > right now but may wish to do in future) since the data can't just be > passed to the bus I/O functions so it's not purely a memory efficiency > thing. OK, that's another argument. We need C++ for a better implementation of such codes, heh ;) Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
