[LAU] [LAD] [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Improvisor lilypond support!?]]

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Jun 9 18:42:59 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Davis<paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
>
> Dave - I've had this argument with at least one of them online
> (somewhere). No, this particular person didn't get it and I suspect
> the others won't either. The critical arguments are:
>
>    (a) the linux kernel has a general design principle of providing
> mechanism not policy
>    (b) audio mixing is generally best done in floating point format
> (because otherwise its dog slow to simulate
>          fixed point on an x86-style processor) and the kernel cannot
> do floating point math
>    (c) as you allude, JACK is not about providing just shared access
> to the audio interface, but routing
>          between applications as well, which a kernel-based solution
> has no role in. this is why JACK
>          is still so useful on OS X, even though CoreAudio *does*
> support mixing multiple app

I wasn't quite finished ... multiple apps.

Please feel free to point these issues out to anyone you come into contact with.

:)



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