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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/13/2015 09:08 AM, Samuel Burt
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<p dir="ltr">I had watched the CPU numbers drop on portable Mac
computers for some time with frustration. At first, my friends
said the extra cores will give me more performance. Pd isn't
multi-threaded! Then Intel started the auto-overclock trend.
Does Pd cause a CPU to run at its maximum speed now? If I were
to get a computer that is 1.8/2.6, is it only going to run at
1.8? Can I get Gem to run on a second core with pd~? These are
all unclear issues for me and always delay me when I'm
considering an "upgrade".</p>
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Extra cores should give better performance for a multitasking
operating system in general. But it doesn't necessarily give you
better performance for each individual task you want to do. Pd is
unfortunately one of those tasks, but then again so is your
javascript event loop for every single modern web browser out
there. So the trend of chopping up cpus into little bits effects a
lot more than just Pd.<br>
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I imagine it would run at 2.6, but I don't know what the Mac
interface is for setting that.<br>
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I've read on this list that there are issues with using pd~ together
with Gem. It was suggested instead to run two instances of Pd, one
for Gem and the other for audio. You can communicate between the
two using a netsend/netreceive pair over local host.<br>
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-Jonathan<br>
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