From: mcchow AT onebox DOT com (Jabez McClelland)
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Subject: Re: Allegro: slow install_sound() on 486
Date: 27 Nov 2001 19:53:29 -0800
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"Eric Botcazou" <ebotcazou AT libertysurf DOT fr> wrote in message news:<9tvusg$b09$1 AT news4 DOT isdnet DOT net>...
> > install_sound() still takes exactly 45 seconds to execute.  There is
> > absolutely no disk activity during this wait.  It's exactly as if
> > there were a sleep(45) command in the code somewhere.
> 
> Try to disable some audio drivers (see the docs, section "reducing your
> executable size").

Thanks for the suggestion, Eric.

I now have

BEGIN_DIGI_DRIVER_LIST
  DIGI_DRIVER_SB
END_DIGI_DRIVER_LIST

in the code.  install_sound(DIGI_AUTODETECT,MIDI_NONE,NULL) still
takes 36 seconds.  Rats.  Any further ideas?  I'm thinking of copying
the code for install_sound() to my_install_sound() and adding a bunch
of timing diagnostics... But that's messy.  Surely someone out there
knows what's going on in this function and can chime in?  TIA,

Jabez