[PD] pthread external template

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Pd already does parallelism, but not using threads.  It is  
determinstic instead, meaning it will produce the exact same bit-for- 
bit result everytime it runs.  Its quite hard to make threaded  
programs do that.

.hc

On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Charles Henry wrote:

> Hi, Pat
>
> It looks interesting, but I'm not sure yet how you use it.  So, you
> write an external, and some of the routines can be wrapped up with (or
> called from) the pthread templates?  Or do you take your routines and
> find/replace names to write your externals?
>
> I've been studying parallel programming a lot lately, and it's given
> me some ideas for Pd, namely asynchronous/non-blocking externals and
> explicitly locking externals.  I'm not quite sure where to go with
> parallel programming and Pd (and I'm really not too knowledgable on
> the internals for dsp scheduling).  I'd be interested to know what you
> do with threads in Pd and what you think about parallelism.
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, patrick <puredata at 11h11.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> here's a pthread template that works for me:
>> http://www.workinprogress.ca/pure-data-external-pthread-template/
>>
>> pat
>>
>>
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