Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] laaga, round 2
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 15 2001 - 14:57:20 EEST
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 05:02:04PM -0700, Tom Pincince wrote:
> I see why you resist busses. I also see that you view signal flow as a
> push process. I view audio as being pulled through the signal path (no
> ego). The difference may prove to be profound. In a pull model the
> plugin doesn't write to any busses, the plugin just presents its outputs
> and the busses read from the plugins. This is what you want.
Is it? There are performance gains to be had from letting the plugin write
to the busses. c.f. long discussions of run_adding v's run_replacing.
- Steve
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