12 Nov
2003
12 Nov
'03
4:08 a.m.
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 16.43, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:54:43AM -0800, Thomas Webb
wrote:
Why not? If it's a turnkey system, the issues with having users
install such kernel extensions on their own goes away, and cutting
the worst case latencies from around 1 ms to less than 10 µs does
help performance. You can use more CPU at lower latencies without
risking drop-outs.
Granted, DSP code for general purpose CPUs tends to have rather
variable execution speed, but that's just another factor. Eliminating
the scheduling latency part from the equation is still an
improvement.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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It's just a frikkan computer! I'm sorry,
but I'm not a
big fan of these synth workstations. They are just
crippled computers and in this case, withold the
cripple (but double the money). You can just make one
of those.. wouldn't be as pretty and you'd have to
muck w/ RT-linux.
why RT-linux?