From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Barton-Davis Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:59:09 +0000 Subject: Re: HZ > 100 overhead Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org >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