[PD] New user - technical questions

[Pedro Lopes]

 > I am starting with Pd and have some questions:
> - does Pd support multi-threading?
>maybe someone else could answer this one in depth, i know that tim
blechmann has worked on a fork >which does this

I'm interested in multi-threading "inside" pd, i.e..: could an external be
compiled with openMP and have parallelization. Where can I find this?

Best regards,
Pedro



On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

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> On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:06 PM, tim vets wrote:
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> 2010/11/30 Xavier Miller <xavier.miller at cauwe.org>
>
>> Hello, greetings from Belgium,
>>
>> I am starting with Pd and have some questions:
>> - does Pd support multi-threading? If not, is it possible to launch many
>> Pd instances and sync them?
>>
>
> take a look at the [pd~] object
> or you can simply run multiple pd instances and send messages between
> them...
>
> - can Pd dynamically change its patches without stopping the engine? Can Pd
>> unload some objects, open other patches, connect them?
>>
>
> Yes, though you have to take care a bit. If you load huge files or create
> or delete many tilde objects, the dsp engine may be interrupted.
> look at "dynamic patching", or 'pd-msg' stuff
>
>
>> - can Pd run without GUI, even without X support?
>>
>
> yes, do "pd -nogui", don't know if you have to have X running though, I
> suppose not?
>
>
>> - can Pd be embedded in an application, and controlled programmatically?
>> (if not, I can use OSC)
>>
>>
> We are using pd as a soundengine for a game development project. (
> cityinabottle.org )
> The main program is python and pd is running in the background (-nogui)
> with OSC communication.
>
>
> That sounds very interesting, I'd love to hear more about it!
>
> .hc
>
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