Imperfection of language-based timing

[Spacechild1]

@jamshark70

If the server responds to the audio callback by processing n number of control blocks as fast as possible… what happens if an OSC message arrives in the middle of the hardware buffer duration, but all the control blocks have already finished processing?

The only possible thing to do at that point is to wait until next hardware buffer.

This is why OSC messages without timestamps are processed on DSP ticks.

It would be completely possible to handle incoming OSC packets between control blocks, but as I’ve explained in my other post above, there’s no compelling reason for doing so.