28 lines
1.3 KiB
HTML
28 lines
1.3 KiB
HTML
<html>
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<head>
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<!-- __CINERA_INCLUDES__ -->
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</head>
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<body>
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<!-- __CINERA_MENUS__ -->
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<!-- __CINERA_PLAYER__ -->
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<!-- __CINERA_SCRIPT__ -->
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<article id="video-notes">
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<h1><!-- __CINERA_TITLE__ --></h1>
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<p>Key ideas:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Sound is necessarily temporal. You can drop a frame of video and the user probably won't notice, but if your audio
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drops out, they probably will notice.</li>
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<li>Sound bufers are small, and not all platforms will require us to deal with circular buffers. So one option is to do
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a buffer copy per frame and present the game with a contiguous block of memory. This should be cheap enough.</li>
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<li>Much like the bitmap, allocate plenty of space for a sound buffer at startup, and reuse it each frame.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="c-features">C features</h2>
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<h3 id="alloca">alloca</h3>
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<p><code>alloca</code> is a compiler feature that allows for dynamic allocation <em>on the stack</em>. Much was learned and discussed, but
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it should be noted that the function is deprecated and probably shouldn't be used in shipping code.</p>
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</article>
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</body>
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</html>
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