Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0
From: Nigel Gamble (nigel_AT_nrg.org)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 02:54:47 EET


On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 yodaiken_AT_fsmlabs.com wrote:
> Let me just point out that Nigel (I think) has previously stated that
> the purpose of this approach is to bring the stunning success of
> IRIX style "RT" to Linux. Since some of us believe that IRIX is a virtual
> handbook of OS errors, it really comes down to a design style. I think
> that simplicity and "does the main job well" wins every time over
> "really cool algorithms" and "does everything badly". Others
> disagree.

Let me just point out that Victor has his own commercial axe to grind in
his continual bad-mouthing of IRIX, the internals of which he knows
nothing about.

Nigel Gamble nigel_AT_nrg.org
Mountain View, CA, USA. http://www.nrg.org/


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