[PD] parallel processing

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Martin Peach wrote:
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> marius schebella wrote:
>>> pd is only using one of 2, 4 or 8. is that what your question was?
>>> marius.
>> well, it uses 2, as Pd is really 2 applications (pd-gui and pd-core);
>> not big gains however, due to the bad separation between pd-gui and 
>> pd-core.
>>
> 
> And if an external starts its own thread will it run on another core? Does 

in theory yes.

> any OS allow a programmer to control which processor the code runs on?

e.g. linux?

sched_setaffinity
pthread_setaffinity_np (NPTL-pthreads)

and i just found a linux-journal article: 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6799


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