Re: address@hidden: Re: Native play function slows down emacs on RH 7.3]

[Gerd Moellmann]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Is anyone interested in implementing asynchronous playing of sound in
> Emacs?  Forking sounds like a rather heavyweight method; perhaps the
> sound output facilities have asynchronous output features.  Gerd,
> do you know what is available?

I'm afraid I don't know.  I'm relatively sure that I didn't see
asynchronous playing of sound mentioned in the docs I found when I
wrote the code some years ago, but docs were pretty scarce and bad at
that time, so I wouldn't take it for granted that there in no such 
facility.