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Le 30 janv. 07 à 18:03, Michael Ost a écrit :
> Can anyone suggest ways to compare audio/midi performance between

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> Linux

> and Windows that (1) are relevant to non-technical musicians and (2)

> make Linux compare favorably?

>

> Not things like "I just don't like Windows" or software feature

> comparisons or the politics of open vs. closed source, but rather

> things

> like responsiveness to audio interrupts, RAM footprint of the OS

> and ...?

>

> I work for a company that sells a Linux based piece of hardware that

> plays windows VSTs. We spend alot of time on compatibility,

> especially

> on getting the plugins to work with Wine. I often get asked about

> switching to Windows and I don't have a good answer.

>

> My sense is that the main benefit of Linux is that audio interrupts

> are

> serviced faster and more predictably than in Windows because of

> SCHED_FIFO and Linux's low overhead. And clearly musicians could feel

> that, especially at lower buffer size settings so that's the kind of

> thing that could matter.

>

> But is it _really_ true? Is there a standard way to measure it? Or

> published results about it?

>

> Are there any other things to compare? Thanks for any input. I

> _want_ to

> believe! %) ... mo

>

> PS: apologies for any confusion that comes from posting to both

> linux-dev and linux-user. I wasn't sure which list this is more

> appropriate to...?

>

You'll probably first have to decide which Windows version you're

comparing since Vista is supposed to be better than XP:
See: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/01/19/vista-for-music-pro-

audio-exclusive-under-the-hood-with-cakewalks-cto/
Regards
Stephane Letz