Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Bill Huey]

> Now, when you get into a real-time user interface development, don't use
> X. Use GGI, or the equivalent, directly. X isn't designed for real time and
> until a multi-threaded X server is available don't expect it to be. I'm not
> sure the response would be available even with a multi-threaded X server.
 
> Jesse I Pollard, II

Jesse,

That's an OS/scheduler issue not X. No matter what I do in a user space program
a lock/sync, etc... should never waste cpu time for computations in a process
space outside of X.

Folks in audio are highly multithread aware programmers.

Even the jitter/glitching in BeOS is smooth. ;-)

bill