On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Robin Gareus <ro...@gareus.org> wrote: > On 07/12/2011 12:12 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
>> Real-time means "as fast as possible". > > No, "real-time" means - _guaranteed_ to be done before time X. > AKA. guaranteed response time. and in an audio context, for developers of applications, real time means: time to process N audio frames = (A * number_of_frames) + B where A and B are constants. that is, you have a fixed amount of computation per frame, plus a constant overhead. this is an *ideal* - its not often actually accomplished in real life. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
