Roon NUC Recommendations Confusion

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

At most two cores for DSP to one zone, but there are other tasks as well.

What kind of chip best runs Roon Core? More cache, cores, speed...?

Roon is multi-threaded. Much of it is for the sake of decoupling–database work, playback, user interface, networking. They all have different desired timing/response characteristics. Threads are a good way to separate them. In particular, we follow strict rules in the user interface thread (above and beyond what is conventional) to shift away as much work as possible and keep the UI responsive. Because we use a handful of threads, Roon will naturally spread out a bit on a system with multiple c…