Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Latency
From: Eli Brandt (eli_AT_v.gp.cs.cmu.edu)
Date: ti syys 14 1999 - 16:02:50 EDT
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I'm a little concerned about this term latency. To me latency
> is a property of a one-shot process. An example would be interrupt
> latency.
>
> What we're talking about is getting an input, processing it
> and generating an output. We are then trying to minimise the
> delay between when the input arrives and the output for said
> input is generated.
In general, we talk about one-shot latency, average latency,
worst-case latency, etc. In the case of audio-to-audio processing all
of these are equal, so I think it's reasonable to just say "latency".
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