RE: [GD-General] Writing an audio mixer

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

One other thing that hasn't been mentioned is latency.  With a threaded
audio mixer you can get pretty low latencies since you know you'll be
serviced at fairly regular intervals.  With a synchronous mixer, you
have to trade off robustness (underflows) for response time.  For a
puzzle game this probably isn't that big a deal, but it's something to
be aware of.  Setting up a one second buffer gives you a lot of lee way
on servicing the stream, but you've now established a pretty big ass
delay in your audio stream.

Brian