I was wondering if anyone has done any sorts of hardware testing and
benchmarking. While some of the examples that I have run on my machine
took about a 20:1 "decompression" (synthesis) time. This means that the
elepelele.* example, with a play time of about 5 minutes (and a very
good replica of a piano), took about 100 minutes to synthesize using
saolc. I would imagine that sfront would produce significantly faster
results, only I can't seem to get it to run on a Win95 machine (leave
that for another day).
I like the idea of being able to encapsulate a "composition" into a
program, as I assume that sfront does. This would open the door to
algorithmic composition where each run produced different results, with
little to complete control over the performance parameters.
Mike McGonagle
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