On 14.09.2014, at 20:57, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've decided I want to get a feel for what my app is doing and at what
>>> rate by, literally, listening to it.  I want to put in some brief
>>> beeps into strategic locations... I want the sounds to play but with
>>> minimal impact on the running program...
>> 
>>     Perhaps that means doing the equivalent of sending a remote
>> message: to make a sound, send a special packet to a sound server
>> running elsewhere with its own resources (e.g., another machine).
> 
> That's a good idea.  Sending the remote message might be able to be
> done in a shorter time than playing the sound itself.  I assume you're
> imagining a particular context for doing that which maybe lightweight
> enough to do that (e.g., Flow?).  I'm very interested in that and also
> your Spoon project..  To scratch my immediate itch I think I'll simply
> make the sounds as short as possible, play them in real-time, and with
> the ability to toggle them on/off.  My goal is to understand what is
> the server doing at the very moment.

But sounds are played in a background process anyway, so there should be (almost) no effect on runtime?

- Bert -



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