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title="NEW - pulseaudio try to open non-existent /dev/snd/pcm* which hugely increased startup time"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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title="NEW - pulseaudio try to open non-existent /dev/snd/pcm* which hugely increased startup time"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93651">bug 93651</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:tanuk@iki.fi" title="Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>"> <span class="fn">Tanu Kaskinen</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Tom Yan from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=93651#c7">comment #7</a>)
<span class="quote">> Well yes, but I don't suppose keep trying and failing on things doesn't
> exist is an efficient way, even if assume it's not bugged? Shouldn't there
> be faster way to filter out what's on the "list" does not exist first?</span >
Failing due to non-exitent device should be very fast. If there is a faster
way, patches are welcome to improve the code, but the speed gains will be
rather minimal in any case. I expect your delays to be caused by devices that
actually exist.</pre>
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