Re: [LAU] Jack 1 vs. 2

Just wanted to say, there is this page
<https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/wiki/Differences-between-jack1-and-jack2>
as well that talks about both of them.

On 2/4/21 5:40 PM, Brandon Hale wrote:
> I think it depends on preference. Jack2 is multi-threaded, and I've
> found that some software work better with it (Radium in particular). I
> think if you're unsure, go with Jack2. I'm not really much of user of
> Jack1, so maybe other people who are more knowledgeable will have to
> correct me, but Jack2 seems to work with less xruns on my machine and
> seems more performant on my hardware.
>
> Also, if you don't want to use d-bus with Jack2, you can disable it
> from qjackctl's Setup > Misc options.
>
> Brandon Hale
>
> On 2/4/21 5:31 PM, Brent Busby wrote:
>> This subject seems to come up occasionally...
>>
>> What is the current best practice with regard to Jack classic versus
>> Jack 2?  It's usually said that Jack 2 is optimized for SMP, but it's
>> hard to find a machine these days that isn't SMP.  Maybe the two
>> projects are merging because of this?
>>
>> Because, Jack 1 hasn't gone away.  In fact, the only version of
>> jack-audio-connection-kit currently in Gentoo (no overlay) has a version
>> string of 0.125.0-r1, and I presume that's Jack 1.  I've got a local
>> overlay with 1.9.12 that I've been using, so I can fight this of
>> course...but should I?  Is everyone being advised to move to Jack 1 now?
>> For what it's worth in deciding, I prefer not to use dbus for control
>> (or for anything at all, when I can avoid it), and I'm using QJackCtl as
>> a frontend.
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