[PD-dev] sys_idlehook and audio API interaction

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Hi,


I made an external to let patches do things when Pd is idle:

[idlebang] -- output a bang when Pd is idle

but it seems to be heavily dependent on the audio API.


With OSS, I get around 200 bangs per second.

With ALSA, I get around 70000 bangs per second.

With JACK, I get around 1 bang per second.

With audio off, I get around 160000 bangs per second.

I haven't tried PortAudio yet.


Any idea why this might be?


Source code tarball is here:

https://devel.goto10.org/dl.php?repname=maximus&path=%2Fidlebang%2F&rev=0&isdir=1


Thanks for any insights,


Claude
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