Re: [linux-audio-dev] lowish-latency patch and toolchain

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 16:24:41 EST


On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:

>>But it has allready been said for example that the need to delete
>>large files (a don't do that) exists for audio apps. So while
>>the latency may possibly be there, the rest of the requirements
>>are not..
>
>The audio app may need to delete large files, but it can
>be smart about it. I.e. don't delete the file while
>recording. Put it on an internal to-do list,
>and delete when time-critical sound processing
>stops for other reasons.

Sure, that would be fine - if only one application is running at
a given time. That would be acceptible to me, but I suppose
others might have a few apps running simultaneously... No
pleasing some people I suppose.. ;o)

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