[PD-dev] soundfiler~ thread usage

[Miller Puckette]

This might be OS-dependent - on linux at least, you can create all the
threads you want and have them sleep forever waiting on a mutex with no
performacne hit (as far as I know anyhow).

I dont know what the ramifications would be of starting up threads only
when a readsfi~ or writesf~ gets an "open" message - I don't think that would
cause problems except for the slight increase in complexity of the code.

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 02:19:55AM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> I'm working on a project with 64 soundfiler~ objects which may or may not be used all at once. I've noticed in the debugger that the each object is using a thread after instantiation, even when not actually reading a file. Is this normal? If so, what's the reasoning? I'd think it would be better, resource-wise, to spin up a thread as needed. Does starting/joining a thread take too long and break determinacy?
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