OSX slow GUI [WAS: Re: [PD] Metro unstable osx]

[day 5]

Hi Sara (and others reading this thread),

have you tried this on OS X ?

http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/products/processwizard/

It's basically just a frontend for the unix renice command. I find that 
it's possible to get 25-30% increase in efficiency using this.

You can choose to increase the CPU processing priority of either the 
GUI or the audio/video. whatever you see fit. Possibly this can serve 
as an interim solution.


./d5

On Feb 19, 2006, at 8:59 PM, sara kolster wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I was well aware of the slowness of the Pd GUI on Mac OS X, but its 
>> news to me that its actually slower than older versions.  That would 
>> be very good to test.  Tigital did a bunch of work streamlining the 
>> Tk/Aqua stuff to use CoreGraphics, which should speed things up quite 
>> a bit.  I am wondering what makes things go slower with newer 
>> versions.
>>
> I am still using the 0.37.1 PD-version(on osx.3.9) for the exact same 
> reason that the newer versions of pd are super slow. Opening up my 
> performance interface (using quite a few abstractions) and trying to 
> push a toggle or bang is nearly impossible. No response at all.
>
> As you, I am puzzled by the fact what changed in the newer versions 
> which makes the pd-GUI slower than the older versions. I'm using the 
> 0.37.1 version without X11 and i'm using the tcl/tk 8.4.9 (wish 
> shell). I'm not a great fan of using X11, but if that would help 
> figuring out what went different in the production of the newer 
> pd-versions, than that would be worth trying.
>
> Sara
>> One thing that tigital is proposing, which I think would be worth 
>> trying, is making a Fink/X11 version of Pd.  This should get around 
>> the slowness of Tk/Aqua, but would mean that you need X11 to use that 
>> version of Pd.
>
>
>>
>> .hc
>
>
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