[PD] switch~ & cputime climbing

[Derek Holzer]

Hi Roman,

Roman Haefeli wrote:

> this is definitely not a general problem of pd. the most
> netpd-instruments do switch~ing all the time and i never noticed an
> increasing cpu usage over time on my and on many other computers. 

> you might also provide a little testpatch, that triggers to problem on
> your machine, so that everyone can easily test as well.

One test patch came up earlier in thread:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-04/049372.html

> here:
> 
> ubuntu dapper
> pd-vanilla 0.40.2 (compiled from source)
> no increased cpu usage due to [switch~]ing

Here:

Mac Powerbook 1.67 GHz PowerPC G4

OSX 10.4.9, PD Extended 0.39.2
and
Gentoo Linux, PD 0.39.2 self-compiled

both exhibit exponential CPU climbing, will test more with mentioned 
test patch and report back

best,
d.


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