On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Davis<paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> Dave - I've had this argument with at least one of them online
> (somewhere). No, this particular person didn't get it and I suspect
> the others won't either. The critical arguments are:
>
> (a) the linux kernel has a general design principle of providing
> mechanism not policy
> (b) audio mixing is generally best done in floating point format
> (because otherwise its dog slow to simulate
> fixed point on an x86-style processor) and the kernel cannot
> do floating point math
> (c) as you allude, JACK is not about providing just shared access
> to the audio interface, but routing
> between applications as well, which a kernel-based solution
> has no role in. this is why JACK
> is still so useful on OS X, even though CoreAudio *does*
> support mixing multiple app
I wasn't quite finished ... multiple apps.
Please feel free to point these issues out to anyone you come into contact with.
:)
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