31 Jan
2007
31 Jan
'07
11:59 a.m.
On 31 Jan 2007, at 14:06, Robin Gareus wrote:
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Lars Luthman wrote:
I don't know if it's still the case, but a few years ago the NT
kernel was very heavyweight compared to the UNIX kernel, and too a
long time to do things like context switches.
- Steve
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 13:54 +0100, Robin Gareus
wrote:
maybe not for audio-apps.
I once read some books about "subverting the windows kernel" - one can
do marvelous stuff and get great performance out of it!! - only half
kiddingly. - luckily I have not booted into XP for years and this
"Con"
might just be crap...
however some instinct tells me that a UNIX - no matter how pre-emptive
or tweaked - will always have more overhead than some DirectX-app.
- but
IMO this is irrelevant for "normal" audio apps on modern machines.. -
memory management and -locking are more crucial.. Cons;
If "windows wants" it can perform better than a fully fledged
rt-unix-kernel. - but that remains to be proven for Vista!
Are you saying that this is true for XP? Are there any references for
that?