[PD] New user - technical questions

[Pedro Lopes]

>Between the two, you need to channel multithreaded communications into
singlethreaded >communications so that they can fit with Pd.
That's always possible of course. One way to go.

>If you can't use (or don't want to use) Pd's sys_lock() for whatever
reason, you will need some kind of >intermediate buffer so that your Pd
objects can pick up the data coming from openMP.
I'll dig in a bit into that.

Thanks for the comments,

best regards,
Pedro

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Pedro Lopes wrote:
>
>  During that I realized I could implement it in parallel via OpenMP,
>> but tried to compile the code with some openMP directives and it did not
>> work for the pd_external, it seemed that PD could not handle it somehow[2].
>> So what I wanted was "an object" to be parallel by itself. Not a series of
>> different objects. Does anyone ever made an external that itself uses
>> openMP?
>>
>
> I suppose it means that the code that uses openMP must not use Pd, and the
> code that uses Pd must not use openMP. Between the two, you need to channel
> multithreaded communications into singlethreaded communications so that they
> can fit with Pd. If you can't use (or don't want to use) Pd's sys_lock() for
> whatever reason, you will need some kind of intermediate buffer so that your
> Pd objects can pick up the data coming from openMP.
>
> I don't know any openMP though.
>
>
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