[LAD] JACK session API in Perl, Python, Ruby, and Lua

[Ed Sweeney]

On 03/28/12 10:45, David Robillard wrote:

> [...]
>> Emanuel, thx for the suggestion.  The job of that mutex is to block the
>> callback until the user code has run, _trylock wouldn't do that.
>
> "Block the callback" = "Cause a dropout"
>
> Don't do that.
>
> The standard solution if you need to process audio with
> non-realtime-safe code is to ringbuffer the data to/from the process
> callback.
>
> -dr

gotcha, thanks david.  looking at ringbuffer now.

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