[LAU] [ANN] tschack-0.120.1 and PyJackd-0.1.0

[Robin Gareus]

On 12/31/2010 10:03 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from torbenh's message of 2010-12-30 16:30:33 +0100:
[snip]
>>>>
>>>> get it here:
>>>> http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/files/tschack-0.120.1.tar.gz
>>>> http://hochstrom.endofinternet.org/files/PyJackd-0.1.0.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Not sure what half of that means :)
>>> One thing I think you forgot to mention but might be of interest is
>>> jack-session support
>>
>> right. jack-session is supported. but thats what jack1 and jack2 also
>> support nowadays.

There's support for it in both jack1 and jack2 SVN, but there's no
official release where it is enabled by default.

>> well.... which of the features is unclear ?
> 
> Oh, I thought there is no jack1 release with jack-session yet, dunno
> about jack2.
> 
>>>> features:
>>>> - jack1 mlocking
> 
> Means for a user?

I'd be interested in this as well.

`man 2 mlock` - preventing memory from being  paged to the swap area.
that's needed to prevent stalling audio-applications because they're
swapped out.

What's the difference between jack1 and jack2 mlocking? Announcing this
as feature for tschack hints that jack1's implementation is "better" - why?


TIA,
robin

>>>> - controlapi which works even when libjackserver.so is loaded RTLD_LOCAL
> 
> Means for a user?
> 
>>>> - smp aware
>>>> - backendswitching
> 
> Means for a user?
> 
>>>> - strictly synchronous like jack1. (-> no latency penalty)
> 
> Async (jack2?) has a latency penalty?
> 
>>>> - clickless connections. 
>>>> - shuts down audio processing when cpu is overloaded for too long.
> 
> I guess most users don't know very much about the technical details of
> the jack implementations.
> 
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