Re: WANTED: Programmer for comm stuff

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <38hb35$ig4@charnel.ecst.CSUChico.EDU>,
James L Brookes <jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:

>Without referencing the original article, I believe he's referring to
>various techniques for 'best fit', meaning how to 'best' fit a subset
>of a given set into a limited amount of space, given certain constraints
>on what goes where.  A good example of this would be techniques to fit
>multiple instruments in DOC RAM for a mod player :)  I'm sure Ian will
>chime in here...

Actually it's more applicable to a SoundSmith style player, where you'd do
a temporary sort and fit instruments in size order from biggest to smallest.
(you can also cheat and not do the sort at some cost in general complexity).

Ian, dreaming of an Ensoniq Soundscape card with 4 megs of DOCRAM :)
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