Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:14:34PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > > there is no queue. this is real time FX processing or synthesis,
> > > remember ? 
> > 
> > I'm confused. I thought that buffering was possible.
> > Get data -> send it to processor -> output result
> >              couple of seconds of
> >              buffer here.
> [snip]
> 
> Have you ever played a piano? Would it have been hard (impossible?) to
> play if it took a "couple of seconds" to hear the sound from the key you
> just pressed?
> 

There are two different problem spaces:
1. Live -- which seems to me to be a hard realtime application when you
    talk about serious quality.
   Time_data_in - Time_data_out < K 
  
2. Places where some serious buffering (ok, not seconds, perhaps) is ok.
   I thought we were discussing this -- and people here have been saying
   that there is a great deal of applications in this space.

   

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