Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2005-07-15T16:48:52Z

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:46, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> >>>And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> >>>completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
> >>>HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.
> >>>
> >>Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be
> >>bothered to set the default to suit your usage?
> >>
> >>>It's straight from the MIDI spec. Your argument is pretty close to "the
> >>>MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".
> >>>
> >>No.
> >>
> >>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
> >>
> >>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take.
> >
> >Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where
> >"few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously
> >"many" > "few" :-)
> >
> Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly
> isn't true in all cases.

Yes, indeed, the two sets do intersect, I belong to both. I can't speak
for everybody in the "multimedia" set but in my musical work (and I
suspect many others share this view) I would rather not sacrifice timing
precision for battery life. Of course there are scenarios where the
opposite can be true, but are fewer by far (IMHO).

-- Fernando