Re: [Minutes] Audio WG teleconference 18 June 2015

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:

>
> 4. AudioWorker Progress
>
> Chris has discussed issue #532 with Alex Russell of the TAG. No particular
> outcomes there but Chris has also found that there seems to be little
> prospect of having script loading and execution run in some thread other
> than the audio thread, meaning that loading up AudioWorkers will inevitably
> cause glitching as scripts are initialize.  This is not a showstopper
> though: the feature is still incredibly useful and important; it just means
> that scripts should be loaded either as part of app initialization or while
> audio is quiescent.
>
> Need Paul's input on this, and determination of best way forward to create
> a reasonable definition of AudioWorker (perhaps still not a Worker,
> fundamentally) so pushed back on Needs WG Review.
>
> @padenot can you please chime on on this subject via email?
>


Yeah well I'm not happy about that. I'll be talking to some people this
week. Also, yes, this is not really a worker at this point.

My current thinking is that native can load dynamic code without glitching,
so Web Audio API should be able to do the same.

Paul.