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> Jay Ts wrote:
> > 
> > Abramo, I'm wondering about something.  Maybe you've told us this
> > before, but if so, I've skimmed over it.  Can you tell us, in 200
> > words or less, why you feel that a multiprocess approach is so
> > vital to support?  That is, what do you want to do that would require
> > it, and would not be possible with the single process (minimized/no
> > IPC or context switching) approach?
> 
> 200 words... far less ;-)
> 
> - performance (for SMP machine)
> - greater robustness
> - integration of audio applications not written as pure component

Oops ... let me rephrase my question: Suppose I do not under *any*
circumstances (hypnosis, propaganda, torture, blackmail... :-) believe
the first two.  Can you give us a specific example of an application,
maybe even a 'killer app', that *needs* the multi-process support,
and simply wouldn't be possible to implement otherwise?

I've been thinking, if the app is allowed to function as its own
process, using IPC, it will be a fully-fledged Unix process and have
access to system resources and features it wouldn't have if it were
running as a function call, through a plugin API.  Or is this not
correct?

- Jay Ts
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