[PD] parallel processing

[Claude Heiland-Allen]

Brandon Zeeb wrote:
> More specifically, my question is:
> 
> How does PD's performance scale when the number of available  
> processing units increases from 2 to 4 and to 8 cores?  Is the main  
> engine written in such a way as to take advantage of this, or is it  
> primarily a single-threaded?

Pd's engine is a single thread, it will use at most 100% of *one* core.
Pd's gui is a single thread, it will use at most 100% of *one* core.

The communication between engine <--> gui is suboptimal, which might 
limit things, but unlikely.

> Besides running multiple copies of Pd, how does Pd scale on many-cpu  
> systems?

It doesn't.


Claude
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