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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: MCOP
From:       Billy Biggs <vektor () div8 ! net>
Date:       1999-11-07 23:42:59
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:

> > The TODO point "transfer layer needs to be rewritten" could translate to
> > "aRts should come with an own IPC mechanism, which is commited to deliver
> > high performance, multimedia transfer, QoS, etc.". That would mean not
> > using DCOP, but - to have a name - ACOP, and try to build highspeed
> > multimedia IPC suitable for streaming videos around, sending midi events
> > in time, etc.
> 
> Well I just checked in MCOP, which should be just what we talked about.
>
> The problem seems to be TCP. If you profile 100000 invocations, you get
> reported about 7 secs of CPU usage by gprof, and it takes 24 sec. I
> assume that the rest of the performance gets lost somewhere deep down
> in linux. (TCP packet stuff etc.)

  So, all communication is done through TCP?  What is being sent across?
Is this for blasting audio fragments in hopes that they can be played just
in time, or is there some other means of doing that?

  Where is the code checked in?

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Billy Biggs                         vektor@div8.net
http://www.div8.net/billy       wbiggs@uwaterloo.ca

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