[PD-dev] Why not use portaudio per default?

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

On 1/21/22 14:59, Christof Ressi wrote:
> I'm not sure about ALSA. Here would should really compare and see if 
> there's a real showstopper in the portaudio implementation (that cannot 
> be easily patched).

my understanding is that the native ALSA implementation allows for the 
lowest latencies (at least under Linux)

but: i really don't know how well portaudio behaves in this respect.

> What about OSS? I understand that it's legacy, so maybe we can just use 
> the portaudio implementation?

i think the merit of OSS is that it allows to build Pd with *zero* 
external dependencies and still have sound (and MIDI): no libalsa, no 
libjack.

this is probably also the most compelling reason for MMIO.


mgfds
IOhannes
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