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From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@Op.Net>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HZ > 100 overhead
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:59:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-94106874932014@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-94104909204283@msgid-missing>

>In our upcoming multimedia API we will run the audio daemon
>not only for providing PCM/MIDI services but precise timers too.

i hate to go on about this, but MIDI only programs shouldn't need to
depend on audio services to work. i might even want to run a MIDI
interface on a machine with no audio card at all - its hard to find an
argument to be using an audio daemon under such circumstances.

thats why i like eric's suggestion for an rtcd that can be used by
programs that want precise-ish timing *but have no option to do
audio-based timing* because they don't deal with audio. any program
that does its own audio output or input in small fragments has its own
built-in source of precise timing, but not every interesting program
works that way.

--p

  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-10-27 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-27 17:42 HZ > 100 overhead est
1999-10-27 18:31 ` Paul Barton-Davis
1999-10-27 18:55 ` Billy Biggs
1999-10-27 20:39 ` Benno Senoner
1999-10-27 23:59 ` Paul Barton-Davis [this message]
1999-10-28  0:16 ` Benno Senoner

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