[PD-dev] outlet_anything() & threads

[Tim Blechmann]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:38 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> latency, there would be no difference in latency if a Pd object was  
> polling a thread or polling a file in /dev/; that object would still  
> be polling at the same rate.  Adding a thread would just put extra  
> code between the Pd object and the /dev/ file. 

yes ... but using pd's timer callbacks to poll the devices introduces
two problems:
- pd's timer callbacks are implemented as a linked lists ... adding to a
linked list is highly inefficient ... O(n) ... one of the biggest
problems of pd's scheduler ...
- polling the device from the pd thread would add overhead code which is
possibly blocking ... so your code can't be used in low-latency
systems ...

cheers ... tim

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