Re: [Rosegarden-user] wow, xrun central...

[Bungee <bu...@er...>]

Chris Cannam <ca...@al...> wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 Nov 2005 15:26, Richard Cooper wrote:
> > > (a) whether it makes a difference to the CPU load
> >
> > Yes, it's only 5% with that patch.  According to a previous message I
> > wrote, 1.0 made it use 13%, so that's actually quite an improvement.
> 
> That's interesting.  That's CPU used by X, yes?
> 
> > > (b) whether it makes the window noticeably more flickery during
> > > editing and playback.
> >
> > The blue line flickers in playback, it's perfectly useable, just flickery.
> 
> So we appear to have a choice of 26% CPU without flicker, or 5% CPU with 
> flicker.  Unless we can work out how to make the lower-CPU one not flicker 
> without double-buffering everything.  Which is probably possible.
> 
> I have a slower machine at home which I'll have to try this out on -- it's 
> obviously hard to evolve fixes for things you can't see, and on my usual 
> development machines I see neither the heavy CPU usage nor the flicker.
> 
> 
> Chris

For what it's worth I personally would prefer to go for the 5% with flicker.

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