[PD-dev] dev meeting comments

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 28, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> hi all, especially miller, matju and winfried ...
>
> just a few comments, since i had to leave very early ...
>
> - i'd definitely prefer to use multiple threads instead of multiple
> processes, since it's easier to share data, since we don't have the
> socket connection ... on the other hand, it wouldn't be that easy to
> build a custom gui for pd ... (except when adding a send/recv h
> anyway, since the tcl/tk code is virtually everywhere in the pd core,
> it's already pretty impossible to build a custom gui ...
> still, i'd strongly vote for seperating g
>
> - a short time ago, i was doing some low latency benchmarks ... it  
> seems
> that the send / recv system calls should be avoided in a realtime  
> thread
> ... having a gui _thread_ it would be possible to synchronize gui /
> kernel via the lock-free fifos, that are implemented in devel ...
>
> basically, i'm not sure, if we should use an external scripting  
> language
> for the gui at all ... of course, it's faster to write and easier to
> maintain, but it's usually much slower than plain c ...

For all of Tcl's warts, it is an essential element of what makes Pd so  
great.  It is not an application but instead a flexible, open-ended  
platform, especially when you consider things like toxy.  Writing the  
GUI in OS-native C would change that.  I don't think some optimization  
is worth the loss of flexibility.  CPUs are only getting cheaper.

.hc

>
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