[linux-audio-dev] How does ASIO work?

[Michael Tewner]

Michael tippach (sp?) wrote a neat ASIO program called ASIO4all (Am I
being naive? is that what everyone uses?). It was written in pure
assembler.


On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 13:38, Maarten de Boer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am preparing some slides about Linux audio, and while comparing Linux
> with Windows, I have been wondering how the ASIO drivers manage to
> obtain low latency on MS Windows, an operating system that does not seem
> capable of low latency in any other way. So what tricks did Steinberg
> come up with to get around that? I'd like to be able to say why the Linux
> approach is better/cleaner.
> 
> Maarten
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Michael Tewner <tewner at jct.ac.il>
The Jerusalem College of Technology