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This got me curious what these acronyms were. I found this information interesting.
https://hal.science/hal-03116888/document
I suspect they meant “Hardware Abstraction Layer” for “HAL”
Well if they had actually added something other than "that bad, this good" we might actually know.
I don't think it's entirely necessary to explain the entire topic in a simple lemmy comment about something that is so easy to search for and learn about.
Which is what any OS already is.
I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android
Well, being low level is exactly what lets to extract better performance, lower latency and other good stuff.
There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance
ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand
Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing
People here also are asking for super low-latency
That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.
It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency
One person above(Audbol) want to go even lower.
You lost track of the conversation. That was about ALSA