Re: question about static & streaming source

On Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:00:47 am uray meiviar wrote:
> I think that static source could be emulated by streaming source, I just
> want to make thing simple to make all source is streaming mode in my audio
> library, my question is: is static source (AL_STATIC) has performance
> benefit compared to (AL_STREAMING) ?

There can be a performance benefit to using a static source compared to a 
streaming one, for certain implementations. A streaming source will likely be 
streamed in real-time to the mixer/hardware, to account for the possibility of 
any amount of new data being queued at any time, while a static source can be 
loaded once and played directly.

Additionally, up-coming extensions like AL_EXT_loop_points will only work on 
static sources.
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