R: [PD] New external on neural networks

[Tim Blechmann]

> > like creating a thread? Is out there an example of external using
> > threading?
> 
> i'd rather not go for threads, as they are a pain in the whereever you
> want. crossplatform would become much harder.
well, i don't think that the equation "threads == evil", although it
seems to be quite common among pd developers.

- as pd itself uses the pthreads, the only limitation of crossplatform
  portability would crossplatform portability issue of pd itself
- flext is offering a nice wrapper for threading libraries
- the equation "threads == locks && locks == evil" is not correct
  either. the lock-free fifos that are used for the idle callbacks in
  devel make it possible to have a lock-free thread synchronization and
  miller is planning to use them in 0.39. and even locks are only
  then evil, if a thread is being locked for too long.

cheers ... tim

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