Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2005 08:46:15 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt |
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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.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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