Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: ALSA features

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 18:10:15 EEST

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 08:58 -0500, Ben Loftis wrote:
> > How about a nicer interface to do synchronized I/O ? Currently the docs say,
> > in effect: "this is really hard .. just use JACK". I like JACK but there are
> > someinstances where it is not needed.
>
> JACK does not add significant overhead. There's really no reason not to
> use it.

overhead, no. complication and runtime dependencies, yes.

i can easily imagine people building embedded linux audio systems who
would not want to use JACK, and i think they could very well be right to
do so.

--p
Received on Tue Sep 6 20:15:05 2005

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