[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Wed Dec 18 09:42:09 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 18 December 2002 14.46, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:47:21 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11.16, Steve Harris wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I dont see any point in having anythign other than ramp, and
> > > /maybe/ set, but it just seems like a ramp with a duration of 0
> > > to me.
> >
> > Yeah - but that's a special case on the receiving end. SET allows
> > you to test for zero duration when sending events. (I've
> > explained elsewhere why I think that's a good idea.)
>
> OK, I'd have to construct an inner loop to see which was cleaner,
> but I wont be happy with the API until I've tried coding against it
> anyway.
>
> I think this is an open issue.

Yes. That applies to lots of other details as well. We can't finalize 
anything before we've seen it in action.


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