Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Quick and efficient sound daemon idea -- why not do it this way?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 11:51:15 EEST
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:03:03 -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> Let me take a step back and ask a question that has plagued me for a while:
> what *is* the Unix way to solve new problems in new domains?
FWIW I think Paul was overstating the case. Its true that open/read/write
is not viable for low latency audio in 2002: we're working our asses off
just trying to meet deadlines, without any overhead from other stuff.
In 1982 it would have seemed ridiculous to cat tar streams over ssh to get
them to other machines (or tunnel X over ssh for that matter), but we do
it all the time now - we have lots of spare cycles, so why not use them
for a bit of added convience and security? I think that audio will go the
same way - unless the hardware manufacturers have us all using 64bit/2MHz
PCM by 2022 ;)
- Steve
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