[uae] Re: Sound tips for Linux
- From: Richard Drummond <evilrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:37:30 -0400
Hi Kjetil
On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:07, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
> Yeah, you are probably right. But for running realtime amiga software
> like midi sequencers, the current state is not good enough.
I'm not arguing with you there. ;-)
> The point is to avoid priority inversion. Theres little point running a
> program with realtime priority if it has to wait on a non-realtime
> thread, which does happen if you do things like disk-access or X
> graphics rendering.
Indeed. My point was that while it may be necessary for graphics output, disk
access, etc., I just don't think it's necessary or particularly beneficial
for audio output (at least on Linux with OSS or ALSA).
BTW, the virtual filesystem can already supported a threaded model. But for
now on uniprocessor systems the performance is so much poorer than the
non-threaded version that it's disabled.
Cheers,
Rich
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