[PD] Findings regarding performance

Charles Henry czhenry at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 19:05:02 CET 2011


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi João
>
> On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 16:04 +0100, João Pais wrote:
>> would it make sense to do a general test patch, where these and more
>> objects could be tested empirically? or, put your patches somewhere, so
>> that other people can work on them, and have a test-repository?
>
> I attached my test setup. It's very naive and it doesn't serve much more
> than to compare different classes on a specific setup (Hardware/CPU,
> specific Pd version, probably it's even specific to certain compile time
> flags).
>
> main.pd loads many (actually 4096) instances of [gate~]. I simply edited
> an instance of [gate~] and compared what CPU meter displayed while
> main.pd was running. On different computers you probably need to add
> more or remove instances of [gate1024~] in order to get meaningful
> results.

Actually, I think you're looking at scalibility--to get a better
measurement, you'd need to compare across several numbers on a single
machine, e.g. 1024, 2048, 4096, etc... and do a linear regression to
separate out the fixed costs and marginal costs.



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