[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-extended 0.43.4 beta release, its almost done!

Miller Puckette msp at ucsd.edu
Mon Nov 5 02:54:44 CET 2012


Sorry, just a followup - I realized I hadn't tried with the latest portaudio
so just now did so... same result (12% CPU).  I'm on a 32 bit machine;
perhaps Pd extended is being compiled for 64 bits and this is changing the
CPU usage?

cheers
Miller

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:43:27PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> The main difference that I can think of is that Pd-extended uses a newer version of Portaudio to get 64-bit support on all platforms.  Maybe you could try building Pd-extended against the very latest portaudio and the version of portaudio that Pd-vanilla 0.43 is using.
> 
> That should just be a matter of replacing the files in the pd/portaudio folder and rebuilding.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Oct 28, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
> 
> > THanks... I'll be able to get on an up-to-date machine tomrrow and will see
> > if I can get the same behavior.
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
> >> Hello Miller,
> >> 
> >> In vanilla, this is happening, but with a lesser importance.
> >> Here are the test with different versions, first number is when
> >> opening only the cpu meter, second number is when i move the cpu
> >> meter window, third number is when i turn on the dsp, 4th number is
> >> when i turn off the dsp, and fifth is when I turn the dsp on again:
> >> 
> >> cpu-meter / moving window / dsp on / dsp off / dsp on
> >> Pd-0.43-1 : 25 / 12 / 25 / 1 / 29
> >> Pd-0.43-4 : 25 / 12 / 27 / 1 / 29
> >> Pd-0.43.1-extended-20120402 : 50 / 23 / 50 / 2 / 50
> >> Pd-0.43.4-extended-20121022 : 50 / 23 / 50 / 2 / 50
> >> 
> >> Tell me if i can help with further testing.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> n
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Le 28/10/12 20:21, Miller Puckette a écrit :
> >>> Hmm.. can you tell me if this happens in "vanilla" 0.43 as well? (I infer
> >>> from the report that you're using Pd extended, correct?)
> >>> 
> >>> thanks
> >>> Miller
> >>> 
> >>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any idea about that?
> >>>> Should I fill the bugtracker?
> >>>> It really prevents me from using the 0.43 version under osx.
> >>>> I'd like to know if it's for all osx user like that.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>> best,
> >>>> n
> >>>> 
> >>>> Le 23/10/12 12:15, Nicolas Montgermont a écrit :
> >>>>> Hello Hans,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Thanks for your work.
> >>>>> I have a special behavior here on macbook pro 13" / osx 10.6.8 /
> >>>>> Intel core 2 duo 2.4 GHz:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> When I launch "load meter" my cpu is already at 52-54% with
> >>>>> nothing else open, even with the dsp not started.
> >>>>> Then if I move the "load meter" window or the Terminal window, the
> >>>>> cpu decrease to 20-25% during the movement
> >>>>> Then if I switch to dsp on then dsp off, the cpu decrease to a normal 2%.
> >>>>> It goes back to 50% when i reactivate the cpu.
> >>>>> I'm using the portaudio driver, with 44100Hz / 100ms latency / 64
> >>>>> samples buffer, callbacks not checked and Built-in input and
> >>>>> output.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Can other osx users reproduce this?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Best,
> >>>>> n
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Le 23/10/12 05:34, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> >>>>>> So in a little burst of activity, there has been new work on the Pd-extended
> >>>>>> 0.43 release.  A bunch of bugs have been fixed, a new Windows XP build server
> >>>>>> is up and running, a couple of bugs are still outstanding.  Overall, things
> >>>>>> are looking good and ready to go!  Unless you are affected by one of the bugs
> >>>>>> listed below, I think that this beta version is already much better than the
> >>>>>> last release. You can get it here:
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> https://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> If you are running Ubuntu or Linux Mint (lucid thru quantal), you can add this
> >>>>>> PPA to automatically find and install Pd-extended beta updates:
> >>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended/
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Running this command in the Terminal is the easiest way to add this PPA to
> >>>>>> your machine:
> >>>>>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Unfixed bugs
> >>>>>> ------------
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> These are the bugs that are not yet fixed.  If you can help with them we
> >>>>>> appreciate all the help we can get.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> GUIs not updating well on parent patch
> >>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3573542&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Mac OS X: gem 0.93 does not play .mpg files
> >>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3517368&group_id=64325&atid=507079
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Windows: the autotips are in a very small font
> >>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3526086&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Windows: canvas properties window is not focused when started
> >>>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3577400&group_id=55736&atid=478070
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
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