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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes. I see absolutely no point to it until I actually hear people who have 
> actually tried some real load that doesn't work. Dammit, I want a real 
> user who says that he can noticeable see his DVD stuttering, not some 
> theory.
> 
> I'm incredibly fed up with the theoretical whining. 
> 

And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.

Do you really consider this "theoretical whining"?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/13/229

It's straight from the MIDI spec.  Your argument is pretty close to "the
MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".

Lee