[PD] dropouts on mac os ...

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, chris clepper wrote:
> On 4/20/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> > The preference is a bit odd.  The option is "defeat real-time
> > scheduling", so for basic audio work, leave it off.
> It's not even 'real-time' because no time slicing is negotiated with the
> kernel.  The code just jacks up the pthread priority for Pd.  It's a great
> way to lock yourself out of the GUI when using GEM.

It shows even more with GridFlow, because the example patches have their 
[metro]s too fast for what the cpu can do, especially because of the 
OSX-specific problem that GridFlow has.

Anyone with a MacIntel can verify whether the slowdown is due to OSX or to 
PPC ?

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