[PD] Timing the message processing?

[marius schebella]

hi
i once tried to figure out how much cpu load one single tilde-object is
using. i put 100 (or 1000?) in a patch to be able to measure the value...)
maybe the only way to measure the time of a messageprocess is to put 100 in
a line (which hopefully takes longer than the DSP deadline), and then you
could use a realtime-object to measure.
but is it maybe useful for you to start each message process with a new DSP
block, eg. to put a delay 0 object at the beginning of the message-line wich
prevents an incoming event to intermit too late?
marius.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Troxler" <lt at westnet.com>
To: <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 2:24 AM
Subject: [PD] Timing the message processing?


> Is there a way (or could there be made a way) to time how long it takes
> for PD to do its message processing when an event arrives?
>
> In my case, I'm interested in measuring how long my scheme externs take
> to run (which I fear is longer than is good), but of course, such a
> feature might be usefull for anyone who is running a complex message
> process in an extern and wants to know if they run a chance of missing
> the next DSP deadline.
>
> Just to be clear, I'm not talking about DSP processing time, but
> strictly the message passing time (which is intermittent, but might take
> a long time when it happens).
>
> Regards
>
> Larry Troxler
>
>