3 Jun
2010
3 Jun
'10
3:35 a.m.
Excerpts from Brent Busby's message of 2010-06-03 03:21:24 +0200:
I'm updating packages on a studio machine
that's been fairly stable with
Jack 0.116.2, just to catch up with what's been going on. Jack's been
up to all kinds of stuff since then though.
There's Jack with DBus, Jack without DBus, Jack that does realtime by
default, Jack that needs '-R' for realtime, Jack specialized for
multiple processors, Jack that runs on multiple processors but isn't
specialized for it...there's probably a plain old Jack somewhere too.
I know Jack's been a busy guy, and all work and no play make Jack a dull
boy, but all these choices and options are enough to make someone go get
a bottle of Jack and get jacked up just thinking about it.
I'm running Gentoo with the Pro-Audio overlay, and it looks like there
are versions from both the 0.x and 1.x series available. What's
recommended these days for someone with four AMD cores, RME hardware
(via PCI-E, no firewire), and has always worked fine with the 0.x series
even on SMP? (And I have no PulseAudio, and don't plan on getting any.)
Sorry about the silly questions... As you can see, I don't know Jack.
Hi Brent.
I'll try to keep it simple:
- 0.x is jack1, plain old jack. It works on any machine but only on a
single core.
- 1.x is jack2, just another implementation. It works on any machine and
takes advantage of smp
There are some implementations that I just call 'minor' here, and every
implementation has its pros and cons. If you're happy with jack1 you can
stick with it, it's the earliest implementation afaik and hence probably
the most stable one.
--
Regards,
Philipp
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