[linux-audio-dev] Re: ALSA features

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:10 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 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.

OK.

So what exactly is meant here by "synchronized I/O"?

Lee