Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 1999 10:40:02 -0700 | From | Brian Swetland <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] Re: [rtl] Low-latency patches working GREAT (<2.9ms audio latency), see testresults ,but ISDN troubles |
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[yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu] > On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:34:41AM -0400, Paul Barton-Davis wrote: > > BeOS is unique in that its the first vaguely stable OS to be designed > > with multimedia in mind from the ground up. there are those of us who > > What does that really mean? MacOS is pretty good for multimedia > if that is all you want to do and you have simple multimedia. > Can you drive a robotic system, sampling sensors, driving a display, > operating a feedback control loop, and pulling data from a large > scale data base using Beos? I doubt it. Beos offers low latency for > simple tasks, but DOS does that too.
Well, as you point out, BeOS is not a hard realtime system, however the fact that the filesystem, block cache, drivers, etc are all preemptable means you can get some pretty decent response. Interrupt response from timers or IO interrupts in the 30-60us range is certainly doable. It'd be neat to actually put together some benchmarks to compare this sort of thing.
Networking on BeOS is not stellar, but it's servicable and performance issues are being worked on. Raw disk IO is actually pretty good, to my knowledge, though obviously real numbers are what you want here and I don't have 'em offhand. Dominic's book on BFS does talk a bit about that.
Again we're not hard-realtime and we don't cure the common cold.
Brian
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