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mattly50 days ago

thanks, and yeah I get that this is still a work in progress for some things :)

My request for a horizontal layout in the plugin comes from a window management perspective; I don't *always* want MiniMeters to be on top; instead only when the DAW is in the foreground. I can't do that with the app (well, maybe with some creative KeyboardMaestro macros), but I *can* do that with the plugin because plugin windows are only visible when my DAW is in the foreground.

The other side of this is that, when idle, the MiniMeters app uses about 20-25% CPU, while as a plugin the CPU use is managed and it doesn't use anything. I've got a lot of cores so this isn't *too much* of an issue, but it did cause my fan to turn on for the first time in a while.

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Direct50 days ago (1 edit)

I am constantly looking at performance improvements as it is the most enjoyable part of programming to me. And looking at options to use less CPU while MiniMeters is idle is definitely something I can do more of. At the moment, 20%-25% on one core is acceptable to me. On my M1 Max, MiniMeters is almost always on an efficiency cores and 25% CPU on a Mac with 10 cores is 2.5% of the total CPU, but I expect more improvements there as time goes on.

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mattly50 days ago

ok cool; it's not that big of a deal and to be fair I was doing a *lot* of other things on my computer at the time, and had three months of uptime which meant it was probably time to restart anyway. I've probably got the same CPU. :)

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