[PD] problem using [udpsend] from iemnet (or mrpeach) in a sub-process (with [pd~])

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sat Aug 21 04:47:09 CEST 2010


On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 16:36 +0200, Jack wrote:
>> I have already do that with [packOSC]/[unpackOSC] and
>> [udpsend]/[udpreceive], it is slow too.
>> I need to send 20000 lists of 3 floats (id, pos x, pos y) each frame (50
>> fps) from one process to other.
> It seems to me as you were creating a lot of overhead for tranmitting
> only 3 floats. First there is the OSC overhead per message, then each
> OSC message is sent over UDP, while adding some datagram overhead.
> By sending 20'000 or even 60'000 floats per message, you could
> drastically reduce the OSC and UDP protocol overhead. Don't know if this
> is the real reason for being so slow, but I'd try to reformat your
> messages. Also, this would probably mean using less computing power for
> creating all those messages and packets.

Yes, and if you have to respect some limit on the packet size, then the 
ideal way to split it is in equal parts. So if the number is exactly 20000 
triplets, try 100 triplets (12 bytes per triplet gives 1200 bytes) per 
packet : it will reduce the overhead of single triplet packets by 99%. 
That means 200 packets per frame.

But it would be more efficient if [pd~] had a transparent message-passing 
interface based on mmap() or equivalent.

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