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.