[linux-audio-user] JACK-0.90.0 Released

[Jack O'Quin]

Daniel James <daniel at mondodesigno.com> writes:

> > jack now has a "freewheeling" mode for faster
> > than realtime operation.

> Seriously, folks, I can appreciate that what is probably meant is 
> 'faster than what the hardware considers to be realtime', but I think 
> we have to be careful with the semantics here. Otherwise, people will 
> think that Linux audio developers are promising the impossible! 

Realtime is not a hardware abstraction.  It is implicit in the digital
audio datastream.  Number of frames divided by frame rate yields a
realtime duration.  If JACK and its clients take one minute to process
a three minute song this is "faster than realtime", just as my 24x CD
burner runs faster than realtime.

Is this really confusing you?
-- 
  joq