Re: Latest Documentation?
Re: Latest Documentation?
- Subject: Re: Latest Documentation?
- From: Bill Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:54:14 -0800
on 15/2/02 12:18 PM, John Lazzaro wrote:
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> I wonder if using real-time extensions is really
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> necessary to be able to do what CoreAudio does.
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> without having to resort to real-time scheduling
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The callback approach CoreAudio takes does solve the
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problem for apps with simple threading structures.
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But as a review of the coreaudio-api archives show,
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in more complex threading situations, the use of
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THREAD_TIME_CONSTRAINT_POLICY is a good thing ...
This can be also a really bad thing and must be treated with a great deal of
caution. Why? Because its priority is so high that it is very easy to create
more problems for yourself.
I think that alternatives should be more thoroughly explored before deciding
that this is the only solution that can be taken. This may involve us fixing
things as well.
Bill
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John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley
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lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro
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