Re: [linux-audio-dev] One API for everything (first draft)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] One API for everything (first draft)
From: Karl MacMillan (karlmac_AT_peabody.jhu.edu)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 23:39:00 EEST

>
> Note that soundbox don't need to be able to handle INT32 or INT16: if it
> does not support them a different soundbox_port_set_property from that
> above would fail.
>

So if you tried to connect a soundbox that can't handle INT32 to another
that only supports INT32 what happens? It either a) fails or b) some
conversion is made. Either is bad.

> Really, I can't understand what do you have against a flexibility that
> has no cost.
>

Complexity (or as you want to describe it flexibility) always has a cost.

Karl

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