[PD] [PD-dev] What goes on during dsp ticks?

PSPunch shima at pspunch.com
Sun Jun 22 03:20:02 CEST 2008


Hi, Mathieu


Thank you for the info.

 > It's mostly just OSX's malloc that is obscenely expensive beyond a
 > certain size. But that threshold is more like 16k or so. On Linux, it's
 > 128k instead, but if both thresholds were the same, you'd see that Linux
 > takes this change well, whereas OSX does not.


Is this something you would learn only from studying the Linux source, 
or is it a fact discussed fairly often?

I would appreciate it if you can forward me to any online resources 
where this is mentioned (Regarding Linux... OSX is out of my scope for 
the moment)


--
David Shimamoto





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