[PD] pthread external template

[Chris McCormick]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 02:52:38PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Pd already does parallelism, but not using threads.  It is determinstic 
> instead, meaning it will produce the exact same bit-for-bit result 
> everytime it runs.  Its quite hard to make threaded programs do that.

The huge disadvantage being that you can't spread it over multiple cores. [pd~]
is a pretty good solution but I worry about what will happen to Pd when there
are 4096 CPUs in our machines. Dynamically patching 4096 [pd~] instances?
[poly_pd~]? :D

Chris.

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