[PD] OSX cpu usage

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If anyone wants to try to beat me to the punch and make their own Tcl  
8.5 builds, please do!  I'll help where I can.

On May 28, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:

> I'm excited to try it out!
>
> ~Kyle
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> For the next Pd-extended release, it'll use Tcl/Tk 8.5, which
> includes a lot of work done on the Mac OS X graphics side of things.
> That should make things faster.
>
> .hc
>
> On May 27, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>
> > Hi Matt,
> >
> > both problems are well known. On OSX, the Coreaudio interface is  
> quite
> > CPU hungry. Using Jack is recommended. Myself and others have posted
> > several times about this.
> >
> > And as far as the GUI goes, I've been bringing this issue up for  
> years
> > now. You can check the archives yourself and see. In short, PD's
> > GUI is
> > slower on OSX than any other OS. The solutions which are often
> > suggested
> > to me when I complain about this are a) use less GUI objects, b)
> > become
> > a developer and fix it yourself and c) use Linux. I chose the last,
> > and
> > found that my patches ran 50% better using Linux on the same
> > Powerbook.
> >
> > best,
> > d.
> >
> > Matt Barber wrote:
> >
> >> If I am having PD run through coreaudio, either built-in or  
> through a
> >> firewire interface, the cpu usage jumps to a consistently high  
> 25% to
> >> 50% just by clicking "compute audio."
> >
> >
> >
> >> Then, if I connect to jack (using jackpilot), computing audio
> >> shows no
> >> huge jump in cpu, so that problem disappears.
> >>
> >> The other problem is that any vu meters connected to [env~] -- even
> >> running at 16384 -- will make the "Pd" or "Pd-extended" processes
> >> (not
> >> the "pd" process as before)  jump to between 15% and 30%, but the
> >> corresponding jump does not show up in pd's cpu loadmeter.
> >
> > --
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> > macumbista
> > ---Oblique Strategy # 36:
> > "Consult other sources
> > -promising
> > -unpromising"
> >
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