While raw speed does reduce the risk of missing deadlines, you need an infinitely fast computer to guarantee hard realtime performance with code that isn't designed for it. Also, theoretically, not even that helps, unless you also have a realtime OS. And then there's I/O, synchronization and blocking calls...
It's not really about raw speed. On Sunday 26 February 2012, at 01.30.48, Emanuel Landeholm <emanuel.landeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the future, people will be able to emulate our OS:s in real time. > (Kind of like how I am able to emulate a C-64 with minimum latency > right now) So even if we are not quite there yet, our descendants will > know how to run our code, > > > Well, no matter how you go about implementing it, what it comes down to > > is that every sample MUST be in place when the sound card needs it. > > There's just no way around that. :-) > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, > dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- //David Olofson - Consultant, Developer, Artist, Open Source Advocate .--- Games, examples, libraries, scripting, sound, music, graphics ---. | http://consulting.olofson.net http://olofsonarcade.com | '---------------------------------------------------------------------' -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
