Sorry - I had forgotten an important detail - not every API implements
blocksize.  In cases where either you can't or it would never help anything,
it's simply left at 64.  (and really, the control shouldn't appear on the
dialog when it isn't used :)

I believe blocksize is most important in windows.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:15:09PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> On 10/07/2014 01:41 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> >sys_blksize() reports the block size used by Pd's acheduler (I believe it's
> >always 64 in valnilla but will be settable someday :)
> >
> >the I/O blocksize, which is set in the audio settings dialog, is what
> >Pd uses to interface with whatever audio API is in use.
>
> Thanks for the clarification, Miller. What I am confused by is that when
> using ALSA and changing blocksize from 64 to 2048, there is no audible
> difference in the delay, even though it should be profound enough to be
> preceivable by ear. Is this because ALSA has another internal buffer that
> essentially supersedes either blocksize, making the final output (near?)
> identical?
>
> Also, response to Jonathan's follow-up question regarding JACK would be
> appreciated. It seems from looking at the code, JACK does not care about
> blocksize variable but I could be easily missing something.
>
> Best,
>
> Ico
>
> >
> >cheers
> >M
> >
> >On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:30:55PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> >>Hi list,    What does the blocksize entry box in audio dialog properties do?  And how does that value relate (if at all) to the value output by sys_getblksize?
> >>Thanks,Jonathan
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