[linux-audio-dev] and just to finalize ...

[Robert Jonsson]

Tuesday 18 November 2003 15.22 skrev Paul Davis:
> >I'd like to say: woohoo!
>
> i suppose that if i knew this was possible 2 years ago, i would never
> have written JACK. that's the upside, perhaps. should JACK exist? is
> the address space isolation worth it? big questions.
>

As others have also noted, adress isolation is god sent. Whatever you do, 
unless jack crashes, almost nothing can bring your application down (a mild 
overstatement perhaps *). This is a _major_ feature. 
I also think that jack apps should be easier to design and program as opposed 
to plugin-centric solutions. The boundaries are dictated by the operating 
system, not by the plugin-architecture.

In my mind jack ought to have much better long-term viability than an in-proc 
plugin-system. Today you can probably wring out more precious clock cycles 
from an in-proc system since the overhead isn't as big. But in a few years 
(or already now!) the overhead for this is easily traded for the added 
benefits.

/Robert

* Jack does add a few critera of it's own, can you say ZOMBIE ? ;) But this is 
a necessity with an in-proc system also.