Re: Comments on the Web Audio API proposal

Dave, Silvia,

I see what you mean, apologies for missing that.

Al

On 10/18/2010 04:46 PM, David Humphrey wrote:
>> This idea has been brought up by quite a few people I have talked to at
>> Web Audio workshops. The general consensus from JavaScript developers,
>> seems to be that this is a good idea to have some core functions added
>> to the JavaScript Math object.
> >>
>>> Has the group ever considered creating a maths JavaScript library for
>>> which hardware support can be implemented and making that generally
>>> available to the Web browser rather than creating audio-specific
>>> filters? It was a question I was asked recently when discussing the
>
> Al, it seems to me that Silvia is saying something slightly different, 
> namely, creating a JS lib vs. adding things to Math directly.  Once 
> created, such a lib could be optimized heavily in the JS 
> implementations, and/or merged into Math or wherever.
>
> I think this sort of approach is ideal, notwithstanding Chris' reply 
> that it misses cases where state matters--I'd argue that there are 
> still many cases where having access to such a lib would be helpful.  
> I know from experience that getting JS like this heavily optimized can 
> be done, and that these devs are eager for such real-world examples.
>
> I also think that there will be cross over with other non-audio 
> domains, and leveraging this work across them makes the most sense to me.
>
> Dave

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