Subject: Re: [LAD] [LAU] [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Improvisor lilypond support!?]]

From: Paul Davis <paul@...> · Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 10:43 pm

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Davis wrote:

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> 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.
:)

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