[PD] [*] vs [*~]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 31, 2006, at 5:09 PM, carmen wrote:

>> Yes, a lot of this kind of stuff is done for efficiency's sake,  
>> like messages vs. audio rate data.
>
> also for efficieny's sake (on the implementation side), some of the  
> newer graphical dataflow / patcher engines consider them one and  
> the same, and solve the rate-efficiency issue by allowing a mix of  
> a wide range of threads of varying execution rate (chuck calls them  
> Shreds) in synch in the same subpatch...

Since there is often talk of threading on here, I want to clarify  
ChucK's "shreds" a bit. ChucK does not use threads like pthreads, or  
Mac OS X/Windows threads.  Its shreds are more like Windows 3.1  
threads, i.e. cooperative or "non-preemptive" as they put it.   
Basically, its structured quite similarly to Pd, Csound, etc., except  
that the scheduler is more flexible and exposed. Plus, you have to  
handle a lot of the scheduling.

.hc

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