[PD] Pd 20% idle CPU usage on MBP

[chris clepper]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Jamie Bullock <jamie at postlude.co.uk> wrote:

>
> OK, just tried my Edirol FA-66 firewire interface. CPU does indeed drop to
> 12%.
>
> Still that's a ridiculous overhead for simply talking to the audio
> hardware.
>
>
A profile would show that the DSP functions are no longer taking CPU time.
The remaining 10% is the blocking.


>  Does that mean that Mathieu was wrong earlier about the PABLIO interface
> not causing any significant overhead?
>

I don't know much about PortAudio and PABLIO.  The blocking call probably
does come from how Pd uses PA.
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