[GEM-dev] Problem with textures on Ubuntu

[cyrille henry]

IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
> cyrille henry wrote:
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>> IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
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>>> anyhow, what comes to my mind is, that on linux, images are usually 
>>> loaded in a separate thread (one thread for each [pix_image]!) - thus 
>>> you will create 300 threads (which is not that much; but the only 
>>> thing i can think of). you can turn off the threaded loading by 
>>> sending a [thread 0( message to [pix_image] (e.g. at [initbang] time)
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>> why did the thread did not stop once the image is loaded?
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> good question. i guess it's there to minimize the overhead of 
> thread-creation each time you load a new image.
> another option would be to have a single thread running all the time and 
> serving all [pix_image]s; but image the synch-problems...
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>> do you really need initbang, or loadbang is ok?
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> [loadbang] won't work here as the patches are created dynamically.
oups, yes, right.

> a better solution (portable to Pd-vanilla) would be to use [r initbang] 
> and just send a bang to initbang when creation has finished.
or send a loadbang message to the abstraction...

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>> it look like a nice feature to document on the help file...
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> yeah, i gonna add the [thread $1( message to the docs.
ok, thanks

c

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