Ok, this may a partial fair point, but I don't think its impossible that with a machine with 100+ MB of RAM that one could screw off virtual memory(paging) especially since I'm not really after having a soundfont library available so much as having something that calculates a sample at a time.

The fair part may be the "3 levels of cache" which I assume amounts to a buffering delay.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Paul Davis <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:55 PM, David McClanahan
<david.mcclanahan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another issue to me is not just getting a hard realtime system going, but
> some tool to analyze code output from the compiler to tell me its execution
> time(based upon processor/clock conditions)

on a machine with virtual memory and 3 levels of cache? sounds, uh, hard.