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Hannu Savolainen is an idiot.
About floating point in kernel: This feature can be disabled when compiling OSS. It's enabled by default because there have not been any problems caused by it during past few years (which IMHO proves that there are no problems). Also the CPU load is exactly the same than without FP.Believe or not the reason to use floating point in audio computations is precision. This may sound strange since all elementary computer programming books tell that integer computations are precise and floating point is not. You may think that I have misunderstood something important but this is not the case.
This model has worked perfectly for all developers and applications except few "LAD" rebels who would like to do "serious audio and music production" using Linux which is a general purpose operating system.May I ask why do you have chosen Linux which is being developed for entirely different use? Why didn't you select a true real-time operating system? Or why didn't you develop a dedicated operating for music production (Musix) so that you don't need to use the stupid Unix file I/O model? By working under the right operating system you might have been able to design something that beats Windows and Mac in professional audio and music production market.