On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Davis<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dave - I've had this argument with at least one of them online > (somewhere). No, this particular person didn't get it and I suspect > the others won't either. The critical arguments are: > > (a) the linux kernel has a general design principle of providing > mechanism not policy > (b) audio mixing is generally best done in floating point format > (because otherwise its dog slow to simulate > fixed point on an x86-style processor) and the kernel cannot > do floating point math > (c) as you allude, JACK is not about providing just shared access > to the audio interface, but routing > between applications as well, which a kernel-based solution > has no role in. this is why JACK > is still so useful on OS X, even though CoreAudio *does* > support mixing multiple app I wasn't quite finished ... multiple apps. Please feel free to point these issues out to anyone you come into contact with. :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
