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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: ANNOUNCE: HEAD is open for development again
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-08-14 17:57:43
Message-ID: 200408141357.43513.staikos () kde ! org
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On Saturday 14 August 2004 13:19, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> On Saturday, 14. August 2004 16:16, Tim Jansen wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 August 2004 14:37, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> > > Why do you think that mixing in kernel consumes less cpu, produces less
> > > latency? It does not matter if the cycles for resampling filters are
> > > executed in kernel or user context.
> >
> > The context switches are the problem, especially for low-latencies (which
> > need smaller frame sizes and thus more context-switches).
>
> To be precise, the problem is scheduling latency, not frequency of context
> switches. This used to be a problem with linux before the preemptive
> kernel, the O(1) scheduler, etc. Not a valid argument to put mixing into
> the kernel any more. You can get pretty far with multithreading and
> realtime scheduling.

   Is KDE going to require Linux from now on?

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George Staikos
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