[linux-audio-dev] Re: ALSA features

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 08:58 -0500, Ben Loftis wrote:
> > How about a nicer interface to do synchronized I/O ?  Currently the docs say, 
> > in effect: "this is really hard .. just use JACK".  I like JACK but there are 
> > someinstances where it is not needed.
> 
> JACK does not add significant overhead.  There's really no reason not to
> use it.

overhead, no. complication and runtime dependencies, yes.

i can easily imagine people building embedded linux audio systems who
would not want to use JACK, and i think they could very well be right to
do so.

--p