Re: [fluid-dev] Making MIDI player read from a buffer

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-10-19 11:21, Matt Giuca wrote:

[....]
I've cut down the rest of the text, just because I don't think there is 
more to add to it.

> So to summarize, the possible approaches are:
> 1. Stealing from client-malloc; fluid will call free(). Won't work with
> different allocators other than malloc.
> 2. Stealing from client-fluid_alloc; fluid will call fluid_free(). At
> least it lets fluid control the allocator.
> 3. Borrowing; fluid will not free memory. Requires complicated memory
> management in the client.
> 4. Borrowing, with a "destructor" callback. Lets the client control
> allocation and freeing, and can easily simulate #1 or #2.
> 5. Copying. Client must free, but can do it right away. Easiest method,
> but inefficient.

Good summary. I think the reason I thought of 5 as the most flexible one 
would be because if we ever changed it to do the parsing at add_mem 
time, we would just skip the copy, and no additional memory management 
would be necessary.

But I don't mind additional opinions here. Anyone?

// David