On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Paul, could you spare some more keystrokes on what you
> >think are the best steps to take to solve this problem ?
>
> actually, i don't see a way forward.
>
> neither jaroslav nor abramo have indicated that they accept the
> desirability of imposing a synchronously executed API (SE-API; this
> being the heart of what ties CoreAudio, VST, MAS, TDM, JACK, LADSPA
> and others together as similar designs). abramo has questioned, in
> good faith and with the best of intentions, whether i am even correct
> that an SE-API is really what we need at all, and he has certainly
> vigorously questioned the adoption of a single format for linear PCM
> audio data (another thing that is shared by the systems named
> above). i think he's wrong, but he's certainly not alone in his
> opinions, and not stupid either.
We simply don't see a room in our implementation for the callback based
API. Yes, we can implement synchronously executed API on top of the
current, device access based, API, but we have no power (being busy with
maintaince and improvements of hardware drivers and current alsa-lib) to
extend our goals.
I'm ommiting discussion about questionable efficiency of a callback based
API in unix environment here.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
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