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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Nick's scheduler policy v12


Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>>All of this basing scheduling performance on a bloated wannabe winamp
>>makes as much sense as gauging car performance using a van. If this
>>was a purely scheduling problem, then why do other players like
>>alsaplayer and such not suck as bad as xmms when under the exact same
>>priority and all? At least use something without a frontend so that
>>you can limit the possibility that the programmers did something stupid
>>like make decoding dependent on some update to the gui.
>>xmms was coded first and foremost to look and work like winamp.
>>Streamlined - even low latency performance was not a base goal.
>>
>
>The reality is that people use xmms, and whilst it may not be the greatest
>program known to man, I don't believe it's *that* fundamentally screwed up
>that it should skip under normal desktop loads. *Especially* if it worked
>fine under 2.4 ;-)
>

I agree with Martin here. xmms may not be the smartest music player,
but its really sad if it skips on a P4 or Athlon.


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