Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Maw, 2004-11-02 at 00:27, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> You don't know libsamplerate, do you? libsamplerate provides multiple
> resampling implementations. While all are fp, one does probably more
> or less in fp what esd does in integer. (I haven't looked at the
> resampling code of esound, I must admit, but it probably isn't much
> worse than libsamplerate's SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD.)

In floating point they are *useless* on many platforms. You are talking
500 times slower than integer or worse if they are trapping to emulation
of FPU units.