[erlang-questions] Real time audio transcoding with a port driver

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Dan Bender <danbenderr@REDACTED> wrote:

> Why not use NIF?
> Encoding/decoding a single frame will probably take about 3ms.
> If the NIF will bump reductions, will this be ok?
>

A NIF should run for at most 1ms. So you will have to break the frame into
multiple cooperative/reentrant calls and call your NIF several times, or
you need to spawn a background thread which runs the code and then replies
when it is done, usually through a message.

Otherwise, you are blocking the scheduler and this is a problem which can
mess up the internal scheduler timing in Erlang. This problem *might* be
solved in R17 where so-called dirty schedulers will be present. These are
probably able to solve this problem in another way.
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