[Sc-devel] Embedding Specs in SynthDefs

[felix]

On 7/30/07, Scott Wilson <sdwilson at wesleyan.edu> wrote:
> > On 7/30/07, Scott Wilson <sdwilson at wesleyan.edu> wrote:
> >> when an Instrument is written to disk it could
> >> optionally have the scsyndef written at the same time, both into a
> >> subfolder of the Instrument dir.
> >
> > Instruments are not written to disk.  they are source code.
> >

> I know what they are. When you 'save them to a directory' you are
> 'writing them to disk'. I'm not sure what you imagine I meant.

"stored" and "written to disk" suggest that you are talking about
archiving or programmatically storing objects to disk.

Are you trying to tell me that you are just referring to you the user
saving the text document to disk ?

but then you said "optionally have the scsyndef written at the same
time,"  which obviously means you aren't just talking about the user
manually saving their text files.



> Well in the pieces I mentioned above it would be 3 or 4 minutes to
> recompile them even on a fast machine.

wow