[PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.43-3 released

[Miller Puckette]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 02:46:20PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
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> On 2012-07-04 13:14, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > Keeping the thread talking to the audio back end always running has
> > some advantages:
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> > * The audio card cannot be stolen by other softwares while DSP is
> > off * A cycle of turning DSP off and on is much faster, since no
> > thread needs to be stopped and started
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> otoh, releasing the audio backend, allows other software to steal the
> audio card.
> i think this is a feature not a bug.
> 
I think it's both... my current plan (which I could be talked out of) would
be to add a new option to keep audio device open regardless of DSP being
on or off.  Probably jack users will want the option 'on' and most others
will want it "off".

cheers
Miller