[PD] Using dual processor to manage 2 Pd at the same time

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Aug 17 17:05:57 CEST 2010


On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Pierre Massat wrote:

> Does this mean that in Linux and on a dual core machine one instance of 
> Pd only uses one processor?

No, it doesn't mean that.

But all the messages and signals circulate in a since thread (on a single 
cpu) unless you use special tools to split it into several threads.

Then there is the "client process", which "own" the patch windows and the 
main window. This runs separately.

Also, [soundfiler], some GEM input/output classes, and much of PDP, can 
run in an alternate thread.

> Is there a way to know which processor it uses, and whether it always 
> uses the same processor?

No idea... I still run a single-core all day long.

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