[PD-dev] outlet_anything() & threads

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

hi all

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On May 17, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> Please send an example patch if you can make [hid] cause clicks.
>>
>> well, this is one of the most common mistakes when designing low latency
>> systems ... there are problems, that occur only in very few cases ... so
>> you don't experience the dropout during 10 days of rehearsal, but during
>> the performance you have a click ...
>> in these cases analyzing the code is a better approach than testing ...
> 
> I disagree.  For me practice is much more important than theory. There 

both of you, please do calm down, this is getting really emotional for 
no reason (probably i don't see the brick in my eye and i might have put 
some oil into the fire too)

hans is perfectly right, when he considers practice very important, and 
often more important than theory: things tend to work in theory but not 
in practice, because sometimes you just cannot foresee everything.

tim is perfectly right when he says that often problems occur very 
seldom (which might make them invisible during long periods) but 
nevertheless they might occur (which - according to murphy (haven't 
heard of him for a long time, btw) - will happen when you are not really 
prepared for them): things tend to work in practice but only _most of 
the time_, because practice can never consider all cases.

so both theory and practice are good ways to keep problems low, but none 
of them can make all problems go away (that's the bad news)
the good news is, that applying both approaches can lower the amount of 
problems even more.

so none of your approaches is better, but both are.
so why don't you just join forces?

mfga·sdr
IOhannes