On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Robin Gareus <robin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 12:12 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> Real-time means "as fast as possible".
>
> No, "real-time" means - _guaranteed_ to be done before time X.
> AKA. guaranteed response time.
and in an audio context, for developers of applications, real time means:
time to process N audio frames = (A * number_of_frames) + B
where A and B are constants. that is, you have a fixed amount of
computation per frame, plus a constant overhead.
this is an *ideal* - its not often actually accomplished in real life.
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-dev mailing list
Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
Received on Tue Jul 12 04:15:04 2011
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Tue Jul 12 2011 - 04:15:04 EEST