[LV2] Startup slloowwss dooooowwwwnn???

[Stefano D'Angelo]

2014-10-27 18:59 GMT+01:00 hermann meyer <brummer- at web.de>:
> Am 27.10.2014 14:56, schrieb Stefano D'Angelo:
>
>> 2014-10-27 7:33 GMT+01:00 hermann meyer <brummer- at web.de>:
>>>
>>> Am 27.10.2014 01:56, schrieb David Robillard:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 17:19 +0200, hermann meyer wrote:
>>>> I have been meaning to add a config file for lilv to be able to disable
>>>> dyn-manifest (and thus naspro bridges) at run time.  Hosts can currently
>>>> do this, but there's no easy mechanism to do it globally.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>> Maybe a config switch were doubled plugs could be switched of generally,
>>> instead print warnings about, would be good?
>>> As far I remember right, the problem with naspro seems to be that it not
>>> only add the ladspa plugs to the world, but scans again the existing lv2
>>> plugs and double them up, which leads to a huge amount of error messages
>>> in
>>> the terminal. My terminal cache was overflowed by the amount.
>>
>> FYI, NASPRO bridges scan LADSPA_PATH and DSSI_PATH (or default paths
>> if not set). They won't scan LV2_PATH and won't "double" LV2 plugins.
>> What you probably see are LADSPA plugins being loaded where you also
>> have LV2 versions (e.g. swh, invada). In these cases there is a
>> mechanism to avoid the "duplication" using dc:replaces in ttl files (I
>> don't know if Lilv supports that automagically?). The bridges also
>> don't print anything on stdout/stderr.
>>
>> BR,
>>
>> Stefano
>
> As I said, this behavior I notice with a updated LV2 core and not updated
> naspro-bridges.
> With updated naspro-bridges, I receive just a single error message.
>
>> Warning: unknown parameter map_curve for plugin organ
>> Warning: unknown parameter perc_timbre for plugin organ
>
>
>
> But, the slow down on start-up a host application, eg. scan the world, is
> "horrible", even with updated naspro-bridges. And even more notable is, the
> slow down of a single plugin load. That is horrible, updated naspro-bridges,
> or not, with lv2-dev 1.10.0 and libliv-dev 0.20.0, naspro-bridges becomes
> unusable.
>
> regards
> hermann

Mmm, do you happen to have dssi-vst installed?

Stefano