[PD] Timing the message processing?

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi,

Christian Klippel wrote:
...
> a quick and simple way is to create a "time" object that gets the current
> time (sec and msec) via gettimeofday().

This is more or less what [realtime] does.  There is also a [cputime], which
measures Pd-process execution time plus system time used by Pd-process.

marius schebella wrote:
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> 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...)

Perhaps a more handy way is to use only one copy of an object to be
tested, and use [metro] to measure how [realtime] and [timer] outputs
drift apart ([timer] objects measure logical time, i.e. give a number
of dsp ticks multiplied by a logical number of msecs in a dsp tick).
Then the value to watch is properly scaled ratio (realtime-timer)/timer.

Krzysztof