[PD] pd and multi-core processors

[Mathieu Bouchard]

> can someone tell me if one instance of pd (with gem) can use more than 
> one core on multi-core processor?

Beyond the new stuff with [pd~], there is also threading in 
new versions of [soundfiler], and there is some threading in the 
input/output modules of GEM, such as cameras.

There is also other forms of multiprocessing involved : part of the 
management of the patch windows is happening in a separate process 
involving Tcl/Tk. Then, depending on your OS, there is some amount of 
multiprocessing involved : for example, in Linux, the default display 
system is X11, and then, using X11 is considered as a kind of network 
connection between separate programmes.

So, those are all manners in which patches can spread themselves on 
several CPUs. However, if you want to do heavy processing using [pix_...] 
objects (and/or GridFlow and PDP) then all of it will use only one CPU, 
except for some of the I/O modules as I said above.

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