Daniel James <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > jack now has a "freewheeling" mode for faster > > than realtime operation. > Seriously, folks, I can appreciate that what is probably meant is > 'faster than what the hardware considers to be realtime', but I think > we have to be careful with the semantics here. Otherwise, people will > think that Linux audio developers are promising the impossible! Realtime is not a hardware abstraction. It is implicit in the digital audio datastream. Number of frames divided by frame rate yields a realtime duration. If JACK and its clients take one minute to process a three minute song this is "faster than realtime", just as my 24x CD burner runs faster than realtime. Is this really confusing you? -- joq
