Hi, On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Sunday 2013-10-06 21:52, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 05/10/13 10:09, Basil Chupin escribió:
Oh, I forgot to mention that for those who hate bloatware then you ought to know that alsa uses 27 installed files to work while pulseaudio installs 155 files before it will make a crackle.
Are you trolling ? the number of files has nothing to do with the functionality or bloat or whatever batshit crazy idea you have about software.
Of course the number of files affects, to a certain degree, how fast software turns out to be. At the start of a program all the following files want to be read: shared libraries, translations and related locale stuff, themes and fonts, bookmarks. That's many crappy, scattered small reads.
What I do grant is that this problem is not specific to pulseaudio, but applies on a global scale to everything.
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