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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
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    On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 05:46, Bill Davidsen wrote:
    > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
    > >On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
    > >>>And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
    > >>>completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
    > >>>HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.
    > >>>
    > >>Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be
    > >>bothered to set the default to suit your usage?
    > >>
    > >>>It's straight from the MIDI spec. Your argument is pretty close to "the
    > >>>MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".
    > >>>
    > >>No.
    > >>
    > >>YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
    > >>
    > >>MY argument is that this is a case of give and take.
    > >
    > >Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where
    > >"few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously
    > >"many" > "few" :-)
    > >
    > Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly
    > isn't true in all cases.

    Yes, indeed, the two sets do intersect, I belong to both. I can't speak
    for everybody in the "multimedia" set but in my musical work (and I
    suspect many others share this view) I would rather not sacrifice timing
    precision for battery life. Of course there are scenarios where the
    opposite can be true, but are fewer by far (IMHO).

    -- Fernando


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