[PD] parallel processing

[marius schebella]

yes, you're right. sorry, I was not thinking of the gui when I posted my 
reply, but of course that is an important aspect.
marius.

Phil Stone wrote:
> It is my impression, at least, that on my MacBookPro, the audio engine 
> is running on one core, while the graphics run on the other.  I could be 
> wrong about this, but I've never noticed a degradation of audio due to 
> graphics in my setup, and assumed that this was the reason.
> 
> Obviously, this is not really parallel processing in the sense we're 
> discussing, but every little bit helps.
> 
> 
> Phil Stone
> pkstonemusic.com
> 
> 
> marius schebella wrote:
>> pd is only using one of 2, 4 or 8. is that what your question was?
>> marius.
>>
>> bsoisoi wrote:
>>  
>>> Along with the question posed by Marius, how does PD currently scale 
>>> on SMP systems with 2, 4, or 8 cores?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> ~Brandon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, marius schebella wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> No, I missed LAC, but it is not surprising that people research in that
>>>> direction. I was looking through some papers yesterday, but not the one
>>>> from jürgen, will catch up on that.
>>>> marius.
>>>>
>>>> Andrée Préfontaine wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> Le 08-03-04 à 11:14, marius schebella a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>> I am reading an old interview with james moorer (with curtis roads in
>>>>>> CMJ/6 1982). one funny thing is that he says, 'software synthesis is
>>>>>> either dead or dying[...] I am hoping it's demise will be quick and
>>>>>> relatively painless.'
>>>>>> in return he predicted all computation being done on special dsp 
>>>>>> chips.
>>>>>> in part he was right, but on the other hand the main cpu got more 
>>>>>> than
>>>>>> fast enough to survive (gfx is slightly different), but - and I am
>>>>>> coming to my point - he also was thinking about hundreds or 
>>>>>> thousands of
>>>>>> parallel processing elements. right now, we are going to have several
>>>>>> and in the future many many parallel CPUs, and the need for parallel
>>>>>> processing is back. miller was talking about that in montreal.
>>>>>> so I wonder how pd will survive that evolution? afaik the current
>>>>>> situation is poor in this regard. can anyone give an outview for the
>>>>>> future? would it be a jump from pd (I) 0.43 to pd II 0.1?
>>>>>> marius.
>>>>>>           
>>>>> Where you at Lac 2008? because Jürgen Reuter gave a lecture on the 
>>>>> topic
>>>>> with who you are interested.
>>>>> I do wonder too in this regard and where very interested in his
>>>>> presentation : exploiting multi-core architectures for fast modular
>>>>> synthesis
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrée
>>>>>        
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