[PD] GEM on PIII memory problem?

[rolf meesters]

opening the Pd gui it says:
GEM compiled for SIMD architecture: MMX
GEM using MMX optimization

no mentioning of SSE2, what is seen in the regular version

rolf

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> Are you sure that Gem also was compiled without SSE2 support?  If you
> built the whole package with the Pd-extended build system, it wouldn't
> change the Gem build system's setup.  That would have to be done in
> addition to changing the settings in packages/linux_make/Makefile.  I think
> you'd need to edit the Gem ./configure flags in packages/Makefile.
>
> .hc
>
> On Jan 14, 2012, at 1:59 PM, rolf meesters wrote:
>
> > hi
> > i have an installation with a number of PIII machines, where some
> picture manipulation (2D) is done,
> > working nicely on Win-XP and Flash 8 (in 256 Mb).
> >
> > now i'm trying to change from Flash to GEM.
> > the patch i made works perfect on a P4.
> >
> > the PIII's don't have SSE2; therefore i rebuild Pd-ext 42.5 for Linux -
> (Ubuntu Lucid).
> > however running the patch on the PIII still looks like impossible.
> > Pd/GEM just calls it quits, no message.
> >
> > a basic picture consists of 16 pieces of 800 x 533 pixels, together
> forming one of 3200 x 2133.
> >
> > to create a full picture resized to 800 x 533 on a normal display,
> > i have 16 identical abstractions, for each piece one,
> > with a gemhead, a pix_texture, a resize, etc.
> >
> > with 8 abstractions/pieces Pd/GEM stays alive, 9 is one too many.
> > memory problem?
> >
> > using the Ubuntu system monitor:
> > bare system (with the monitor) ~290 Mb usage. (of 496MB)
> > starting Pdx console ~300-310 Mb.
> > loading/running the patch   ~335-355 MB.
> >
> > ??
> >
> > on the opening of the patch GEM anounces 8 bits will be used,
> > where the onboard video-card has 24bits.
> >
> > any help is appreciated.
> >
> > rolf
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