[PD] High CPU usage when tracks are muted (Raspberry Pi)

Julian Brooks jbeezez at gmail.com
Sun May 5 20:36:58 CEST 2013


Yep good call, maybe a Pd update might fix it
(pre-compiled version for RPi on Miller's webpage
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html )

as from 0.44-2 the denormal thing has (apparently) been sorted.


On 5 May 2013 18:58, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On 2013-05-05 13:52, Halfdan Mouritzen wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, what I don't understand though is _why_ we see such an increase
>> in CPU load, when the channels are muted.
>>
>>
> Could it be that denormals are produced when the line gets close to 0?
> Depending on how the floating point is set up that could cause a lot of
> context switching.
> What happens if you fade to 0.001 instead of 0?
>
>
> Martin
>
>
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