[PD] pd and multi-core processors

cyrille henry ch at chnry.net
Mon Apr 5 15:37:53 CEST 2010



tim vets a écrit :
> has anyone been using pd~ successfully ?
yes
> I am trying it out, but i get very poor results.
> It seems like a patch loaded with pd~ is a lot heavier than the same 
> loaded as a regular abstraction (DIO errors, see also my message "pd~ 
> and DIO errors").
> I assumed it would run on another processor core...but does it? 
if your OS can deal with multiple CPU, then it should run the pd and pd~ process on 2 different core.

> Is there a way to check this?
depend on your OS.

cyrille

> thanks!
> 
> 
> 2010/4/5 Jaime Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>>
> 
>     hey vedran, 
> 
>     pd~ is a way of opening another instance of pd from within a patch.
> 
>     ideally you want gem and sound on separate instances (connected via
>     udp, pd~ or some other way). each of these processes will use one
>     processor.
> 
>     nicely enough, pd's graphical interface and the actual process, are
>     separate threads, so you (or more precisely your OS) might have them
>     in separate processors if needed.
> 
>     for sound, you can create objects in faust and make multithreaded
>     audio externals.
> 
>     other than that, the processes in a patch are single threaded.
> 
>     J
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:59 AM, vedran <vedran.kolac at gmail.com
>     <mailto:vedran.kolac at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi!
>         can someone tell me if one instance of pd (with gem) can use
>         more than one core on multi-core processor?
> 
> 
> 
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