What are the main differences between pipewire and pulseaudio? Which one is better? What are other alternative popular sound servers besides these two?
ASIO is not an audio server running in exclusive mode.
I never said that. ASIO is a driver running in exclusive mode. ALSA is a driver, that just so happens to be able to run in exclusive mode. If you searched here for “Direct Read / Write transfer”, then you would have seen this:
After application transfers the data in the memory areas, then it must be acknowledged the end of transfer via snd_pcm_mmap_commit() function to allow the ALSA library update the pointers to ring buffer. This kind of communication is also called “zero-copy”, because the device does not require to copy the samples from application to another place in system memory.
ASIO is still not an audio driver running in exclusive mode, my brother in Christ how do you not understand this
