Hi Mark,

I think in terms of runtime efficiency I think the difference should
be negligible.  Having extra instruments may increase memory for each
instrument definition, but those too should be pretty negligible as
far as I can imagine.  Are you developing for a pretty constrained
device like OLPC or working on a more full-fledged machine?  If the
latter, I think you could probably go either way and it'd be a matter
of how you want to work your project.

(Someone please feel free to correct me if I am wrong!)

steven

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, mark jamerson <bass_pilot@yahoo.com> wrote:
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