Firefox 52.0
Firefox 52.0
Posted Mar 14, 2017 7:46 UTC (Tue) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334)In reply to: Firefox 52.0 by ajmacleod
Parent article: Firefox 52.0
And dmix is just made of pixies, or what?
Posted Mar 15, 2017 10:00 UTC (Wed)
by cladisch (✭ supporter ✭, #50193)
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With dmix, all applications map the hardware buffer directly into their own address space, and mix the samples into the buffer with (the equivalent of) atomic adds. This avoid a separate sound server process/thread, and thus has 42% more pixiness.
And nothing is free: all applications must use the same sample rate/format and buffer size, so one fixed value must be chosen in advance.
Firefox 52.0
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> And dmix is just made of pixies, or what?