[PD] Slow cpu/RJDJ patching approach ...

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I've recently been working with 80MHz machines that don't even have  
FPUs, so I also care about oooold machines.  (These little computers  
are known as "iPods").

One thing that is definitely worth trying is to update to the latest  
version of Tcl/Tk.  They have done a lot of optimization in 8.5, I  
think on X11 too.

Another thing to try is writing the GUI in a toolkit that is optimized  
for speed.  I don't know if you have a GPU, but if you wrote Pd GUI  
objects using something like togl or tkzinc, both use OpenGL, that  
could also help.

http://togl.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tkzinc.org/

.hc

On May 25, 2009, at 6:03 PM, danomatika wrote:

> I've been running pd on my slow wearable (500Mhz) and, over the last  
> year, the performance has gotten worse.  This trend coincides with  
> my greater understanding of pd and adoption of nice GOP guis.
>
> So basically, all of the work I have done to make an easy to use  
> environment for making songs/patches is practically worthless as the  
> GOP/gui stuff kills the cpu on the wearable.  Nobody seems to care  
> as we all have exponentially faster computers each day, which is too  
> bad as one of pd's strengths in my opinion is it's ability to run on  
> basically anything.
>
> I'm just wondering if there are others with slow cpu (iPhone RJDJ)  
> machines and how their approach to patching deals with this issue.
>
> Basically, I have spent a whole year trying to get my system back to  
> the slim performance it had 1 year ago!  I wish there was a wiki  
> entry noting all of these issues before I began.  (yes yes I can  
> start one) (I also wish there was some sort of patching profiler ...  
> but thats mabey another issue.)
>
> *sigh* I've been getting burned by this for too long and I'm sitting  
> here replacing gui objects.
>
> ---
> Dan Wilcox
> danomatika.com
> robotcowboy.com
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