Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> If my software naturally produces samples in 64-frame chunks, but the
> device is set up to have 256-frame periods, is there any advantage to
> accumulating four chunks in my own buffer and writing entire periods,
> versus writing each chunk separately and expecting to be blocked every
> fourth time?
No. And writing samples to the buffer earlier will slightly decrease
the risk of an underrun.
> Alternatively, would the extra overhead of reducing the period size to
> 64 (96KHz stereo 32-bit LE on a Raspberry Pi 3) be significant?
That is something you have to measure yourself ...
Regards,
Clemens
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