I'm excited to try it out!<br><br>~Kyle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <<a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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For the next Pd-extended release, it'll use Tcl/Tk 8.5, which<br>
includes a lot of work done on the Mac OS X graphics side of things.<br>
That should make things faster.<br>
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.hc<br>
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On May 27, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:<br>
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> Hi Matt,<br>
><br>
> both problems are well known. On OSX, the Coreaudio interface is quite<br>
> CPU hungry. Using Jack is recommended. Myself and others have posted<br>
> several times about this.<br>
><br>
> And as far as the GUI goes, I've been bringing this issue up for years<br>
> now. You can check the archives yourself and see. In short, PD's<br>
> GUI is<br>
> slower on OSX than any other OS. The solutions which are often<br>
> suggested<br>
> to me when I complain about this are a) use less GUI objects, b)<br>
> become<br>
> a developer and fix it yourself and c) use Linux. I chose the last,<br>
> and<br>
> found that my patches ran 50% better using Linux on the same<br>
> Powerbook.<br>
><br>
> best,<br>
> d.<br>
><br>
> Matt Barber wrote:<br>
><br>
>> If I am having PD run through coreaudio, either built-in or through a<br>
>> firewire interface, the cpu usage jumps to a consistently high 25% to<br>
>> 50% just by clicking "compute audio."<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>> Then, if I connect to jack (using jackpilot), computing audio<br>
>> shows no<br>
>> huge jump in cpu, so that problem disappears.<br>
>><br>
>> The other problem is that any vu meters connected to [env~] -- even<br>
>> running at 16384 -- will make the "Pd" or "Pd-extended" processes<br>
>> (not<br>
>> the "pd" process as before) jump to between 15% and 30%, but the<br>
>> corresponding jump does not show up in pd's cpu loadmeter.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
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