On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus@quantentunnel.de> wrote:
I would be hesitant to attribute your problem to the scheduler. An alternative explanation could be the following: The sound file played by the terminal when it encounters the \BEL character is longer than 100ms. A new sound will be played only when the previous sound has finished playing,

On most systems I've used, this isn't true; they're either suppressed or they overlap, depending on system. (I've had to work around this.)

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