Re: Linux sound (and threads)

[Michael Day <mikeday@corplink.com.au>]

> The thing is preemptive schedulers have the knack of interrupting a
> thread right in an heavily optimized long operation counting on things
> like processor cache and pipelining. You don't want to interrupt things
> like software texturing or matrix transformations, because that kind of
> stuff, even when given the same amount of CPU time, perform a lot worse
> when interrupted.

This is true. However unless you are running on a Micros~1 operating
system, you will be sharing the cpu with many other threads and processes
anyway, so surely it does no harm to add one more? If your texture mapper
is interrupted by fetchmail the effect is the same, unless you want to
deprioritise every other task before you play your game...

Michael