[PD] Re: reduce CPU usage

[Miller Puckette]

On that subject, I'm thinking about (someday) rewriting Pd's whole
graphics layer, probably in "wx", to make it faster.  I'm hoping not to
have to do that until I understand how the whole GUI should work better
than I do now.

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:55:13PM -0400, tigital wrote:
> On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 07:19  AM, Shintaro Miyazaki wrote:
> 
> > hi
> >
> > how can I reduce CPU usage generally?
> >
> >
> > I made a patch that uses almost 90% CPU and everything gets really 
> > slow. (graphically)
> > It uses 82% CPU also if its "stands still" and does nothing.
> > I m working on a Apple G4 1 Ghz, 1GB RAM etc.
> >
> > I would be glad if somebody would help me with my patch so it gets 
> > "faster".
> >
> > download it at . www.gezetera.ch/noise/supercpu.pd
> >
> > thank you in advance.
> 
> hello miyazaki,
> 
> ...very nice looking patch, but that is the problem 
> (unfortunately)...all that use of color is pretty, but horribly 
> un-optimized, at least on the mac tcl/tk side...this is an incredible 
> limitation to the usage of pd in any but an "experimental" manner...I 
> have been working on moving tcl/tk's graphics to native coregraphics 
> calls, but it is a big project, and I'm not convinced that it wouldn't 
> be better to rewrite the pd gui in something else...but it's also 
> apparent that the problem is not just the OSX tcl/tk, because I also 
> get about 56% pd cpu usage with the patch sitting idle, and tcl/tk is 
> barely 5-10%...it's disappointing that pd spends so much time with 
> inefficient drawing calls...
> 
> ...I would be interested in finding out how this performs on a linux 
> box...
> 
> ...lastly, It would be very helpful if, when posting patches like this, 
> you mention what libraries you are loading:  I have zexy, but don't 
> know where most of the other stuff comes from!
> 
> l8r,
> jamie
> 
> 
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