[Pd] Defeat real-time scheduling

[Urs Liska]

>> If you have a patch that takes "250% of the CPU" or something like that,
>> and it doesn't use the microphone/linein, and only writes to a file, then
>> Pd should be able to do that flawlessly, if no objects use physical time,
>> that is, they all use logical time instead. Logical time slows down when
>> you use "more than 100% of the CPU" to account for the fact that only 100%
>> of the CPU is usable (!) and it catches up on physical time when you allow
>> it to.

Interesting. This explains to some weird behaviour I noticed with 
patches that I use mainly to trigger MIDI synthesizers. If I have set 
the audio buffer too low, then it my clocks run way too slow. I always 
thought that pd goes crazy when it can't deliver the requested latency 
but your explanation makes very much sense to me.

Best
Urs
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[Pd 0.39.0, WinXP]