Why are no AudioSampleBuffer methods inline?

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wouldn’t that make sence since they are used so often and are so simple?
getNumSamples, getNumChannels, getSampleData, etc…
maybe i miss something here…thanks :slight_smile:

edit: counts for simple MidiBuffer / MidiEvent …etc. methods too!

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They’re not explicitly inline, but I’d be very surprised if any modern compiler failed to inline most of those methods!

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maybe i did something wrong… but i analysed the assembly and i had to make them __forceinline to get them inlined…maybe its just my compiler settings…ah…wait! microsoft can’t inline because of the default parameter!
i just changed that and it inlines! i think that reduces overhead by a third, but i’m just counting assambler instructions…there may be more to it.
may be worth a change to your code…it just broke 6 lines in the rest of the JUCE source.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z8y1yy88(VS.80).aspx

thanks man!

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Are you saying that it failed to inline

int getNumChannels() const throw() { return numChannels; }

!?

Not sure about changing getSampleData though, because if you’re writing anything that’s even slightly performance-dependent you’d only call that to get a pointer, and then work directly with the pointer, right?

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int getNumChannels() const throw() { return numChannels; }

should work, but

getNumSamples(int chan, int off = 0)

fails in vc++ because of the default parameter.
(according to the doc i posted & my own observations)
i call it once per callback (o course) and do my stuff with array/pointer acces, but still, the funcion call overerhead is much bigger than the actual operation, a simple dereferencing! so it should be inlined :).
i made some stuff inline over here and (almost) doubled performance ! i did not change mich in your code, just the getSampleData default parameter…also the stuff i made inline where funcion calls pers sample, wich should have been inline in the first place, as ther is no big difference in code size.

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It’d be easy enough to remove the default param without breaking any code:

[code] /** Returns a pointer one of the buffer’s channels.

    For speed, this doesn't check whether the channel number is out of range, 
    so be careful when using it!
*/
float* getSampleData (const int channelNumber) const throw()
{
    jassert (((unsigned int) channelNumber) < (unsigned int) numChannels);
    return channels [channelNumber];
}

/** Returns a pointer to a sample in one of the buffer's channels.

    For speed, this doesn't check whether the channel and sample number
    are out-of-range, so be careful when using it!
*/
float* getSampleData (const int channelNumber,
                      const int sampleOffset) const throw()
{
    jassert (((unsigned int) channelNumber) < (unsigned int) numChannels);
    jassert (((unsigned int) sampleOffset) < (unsigned int) size);
    return channels [channelNumber] + sampleOffset;
}

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:!: yeah, of course…i often fail to see the obvious solutions :smiley:
did not break much anyways ;).
peace & thanks man!

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Soo, uhm. How does this work for gcc? Does it inline allright, even in case of default args…?

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