Re: JACK Freewheel mode thoughts

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On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 07:37:32PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:

> Every application that uses ringbuffers to decouple the process callback
> from actual processing will fall over if freewheeling is not special cased.
> 
> There are more than a couple of jack-apps that process in background
> thread(s) (e.g. convolvers), not to mention synths that stream from disk
> or capture apps that write to disk.

In all these cases it's not so difficult to allow freewheeling.
Jconvolver for example should not have problems with it even
when using a number of lower-priority threads to do most of the
work. Any convolution app using zita-convolver can do the same,
it's just a boolean argument to process().

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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