Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]
> > there is no queue. this is real time FX processing or synthesis,
> > remember ? 
> 
> I'm confused. I thought that buffering was possible.
> Get data -> send it to processor -> output result
>              couple of seconds of
>              buffer here.
[snip]

Have you ever played a piano? Would it have been hard (impossible?) to
play if it took a "couple of seconds" to hear the sound from the key you
just pressed?




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