[PD] GUI speed

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, João Pais wrote:

>> p.s.: interesting exercise for those that wanna see how much time your 
>> cpu wastes with gui in pd is running a patch without gui.  I had a 
>> project that used my DTW in pd and a long patch (for my standards) and 
>> when we ran it for the first time without gui... wow. Somethings went 
>> faster than expected and some didn't work because it was all too fast 
>> :) A bit of cleaning solved it, but its an interesting test for 
>> non-visual patches.
>
> if you know a good way to measure this (cputime or whatever), a nice thing 
> could be an abstraction that makes a test and outputs the results.

It can't be done without modifying Tk. But if I do modify Tk in a way that 
puts the results in variables, then I can pick up the results in Tcl and 
send them back to Pd, so that, in addition to [cputime] which measures 
only server time, you'd have a few more measurements, such as total time 
spent in Tcl/Tk, total time spent in the Tk part, total time spend in the 
rendering part of the Tk part, total time spent parsing, etc.

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