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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 21:09 +0100, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:

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> On 02/25/2011 08:57 PM, David Robillard wrote:

>

> >> It's a few months ago now that I investigated LV2. IIRC, at that time I

> >> concluded that this wasn't an option because SLV2 was GPL'ed. But things are

> >> changing IIUC :)

> >

> > You never asked. I would have changed it... but I am not psychic ;)

>

> It's not always easy to discuss about religious matters, such as licenses ;)

>

> That said there is another big problem. This glib dependency, it's way too heavy

> for mobile deployment.

Glib was the most effective route of getting the job done - rewriting

the few bits that are required is not an effective use of my time right

now (it's not exposed in the API, so it's not a compatibility issue, and

there's a ton of more pressing LV2 things that need doing).
I'm not a huge fan of wheel-reinventing, and on PCs glib is about as

unoffensive a dependency as they come. On mobile, I guess that meg or so

actually makes a difference.
Replacing glib will not be very difficult, very little of it is used:

just a balanced BST, dynamic array, and ideally a hash table or trie

other appropriate structure for string interning (the BST would do for

this part, with a bit of a performance cost). Good old-fashioned data

structure implementation is my favourite thing to do, but unfortunately

there is no shortage of more pragmatic things that need doing ;)
Perhaps Stefano's NASPRO core work will do, or using C++ internally, or

just tearing the required bits out of glib itself. Sqlite has an

in-memory hash table IIRC. Code abounds.
Present a viable alternative, and I'll switch sord/slv2 to it, but I

have no good reason to invest time in reinventing glib right now.
-dr
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