[PD] Making a Realtime Convolution External

[Seth Nickell]

if you're not realtime, your main process could get yanked by the
scheduler too.... seems more like "realtime vs not-realtime" than
"threads: yes/no".

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> using "threats" does not mean that things have to get non-deterministic,
>> and indeed a lot of software uses threads and stays completely
>> deterministic.
>
> Suppose that you launch a second fred on another cpu. How do you synchronise
> the main fred and the second fred together so that the main fred doesn't
> have to wait ? Sounds to me like a big issue with multi-fredded
> applications. You can't guarantee that the second cpu will run the fred when
> the first fred will want to, because fredding is dependent on the cpu's
> availability and the OS's scheduler's decisions.
>
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