[ANNOUNCE] New Mixer Handling in PA 0.9.16/F12

[Jeff Garzik]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> If PA eats a lot of CPU this can have many reasons, most of them have
> to do with the latency settings requested by the applications  or that
> have been configured due to frequent underruns. However the actual

/me notes the blame-shifting...


> mixing is certainly the smallest part of it. Plese don't forget that
> mixing is not exactly the most complex operation on earth.

Please don't forget that hardware mixing... is more than just mixing. 
Modern audio hardware can offload sample rate conversion, attenuation, 
3D processing, and other goodies.

	Jeff