On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Pieter Palmers wrote:
> Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > ... >> *Manually clear allocated memory instead of using calloc. > What is the advantage in doing that? (/me sees an opportunity to learn) > You are not the first one to ask. :-) I doubt it makes any difference, but it was faster to change jack_capture than checking various implementations of calloc. The background is that according to wikipedia, calloc may be created by using copy-on-write (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write), which would be harmful when running realtime. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
