On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Maarten de Boer wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing some slides about Linux audio, and while comparing Linux > with Windows, I have been wondering how the ASIO drivers manage to > obtain low latency on MS Windows, an operating system that does not seem > capable of low latency in any other way. So what tricks did Steinberg > come up with to get around that? I'd like to be able to say why the Linux > approach is better/cleaner.
asio is doing some magic to call the process callback directly from the soundcard interrupt. i believe that the scheduler is not involved in this stuff. > > Maarten > -- torben Hohn http://galan.sourceforge.net -- The graphical Audio language
