OpenSound - was Re: lockmgr patch

[oliver oli]

Chris Turner wrote:
With the smaller buffering / stricter monitoring requirements,
scheduling deadlines become more of an issue as dropouts start to occur,
which is also possibly 'less acceptable' in the 'professional' case
(this is very use-case-dependent), and things may or may not be
compounded by heavy data processing, etc.
undetected dropouts in a pro audio environment are not acceptable. you 
don't want lose a single sample when you record audio and at least you 
want to know if dropouts occur.