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Dan Muresan wrote:
> Certainly not unique. My guess is that nobody worried about a

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> (possibly small) performance penalty, and instead used simpler

> strategies -- or they weren't using sndfile in the first place.

>

> Consider this: for any request size you choose, NOT cancelling could

> double your latency in the worst case if you're streaming from a slow

> NFS server.

Err, if you're worried about latency, why are you streaming from

a slow NFS server? 
> This begs a question -- is it possible to "reset" the SNDFILE less

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> dramatically? E.g. would a seek back to offset 0, or a pair of seeks,

> or some other trick also reset the data structures?

Really not sure. You should try it and report back.
> If not, it might

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> be nice to add a sf_reset() function or a SF_RESET sf_command()

> parameter.

What problem does that fix? Do you even know if there is a problem?
Erik

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