[PD-dev] slowing down dsp function inside perform loop

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Dec 5, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Thomas Grill wrote:
>>
>>> currently there's no low-priority messaging in Miller's pd version,
>>> but there is in the devel branch. It's one of the features that have
>>> been there for some time and i'm trying to provide a patch for
>>> Miller, so that it can make it into vanilla PD some time in the
>>> future. Hopefully the auto-discard mechanism of the patch tracker
>>> will blow up before that time. Don't expect the feature to be
>>> available soon.
>>
>> So, how does one use that feature?
>>
>> Is it that all the audio is high-priority and all the non-audio is
>> low-priority?
> 
> Isn't that basically the way it is now?  Correct me if I am wrong, but
> isn't audio data processed first in each cycle, then message data?
> 

just think:
- if you have a lot of audio calculations going on, does the message
engine stutter?
- if you have a lot of message calculations going on, does the audio
engine stutter?

so which part of pd is higher prioritized: messages or audio?

and oh, you can have priorities even without threads...


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