RE: [Rosegarden-devel] MMC and JACK transport

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Chris,
   I agree, but it is completely untrue and really just based on Paul Davis
owning a dual-CPU machine. His dual CPU is probably slower than my UMP
machine, and we've had discussions that the SMP machines all use slower
front side buses and are therefore not necessarily faster when it comes to
applications that require a lot of memory movement, as in audio, but it's
Paul's program. I do my duty and consider a Dual-CPU machine every single
time I start Ardour. I must admit that the consideration does not linger
much longer than the amount time that it takes for the first screen to come
up. ;-)

   I think the RG splash screen should say something like "RG is a great
program. Consider a dual-donation. Pick your two favorite developers and
then watch the fun on the Rosegarden-devel." ;-)

Cheers,
Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cannam [mailto:ca...@al...]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:17 AM
> To: Mark Knecht
> Cc: ros...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-devel] MMC and JACK transport
>
>
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > ardour: [INFO]: Linux: running on 1 processor. Consider a dual
> CPU system.
>
> Now that's just bizarre.
>
> Not that you might prefer a dual CPU system, I mean -- I prefer
> them myself and have two of them at home -- but that it's considered
> so significant for Ardour that it should remind you about it every
> time you run up the program.  Does it do something really serious
> with them, like somehow locking down a real-time process to one of
> the CPUs while the GUI works on the other?  I guess that'd make
> sense.
>
> (I remember when the BeBox first came out, launched with the slogan
> "One processor per person is not enough".  Of course they had to
> drop that when they started selling BeOS for single-processor PCs.)
>
>
> Chris
>
>