[PD] [nbuntil]: an non-blocking [until] replacement

[Roman Haefeli]

On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 23:17 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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> > From: Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [PD] [nbuntil]: an non-blocking [until] replacement
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> > On 17/12/12 08:06, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >>  Why not just trigger each iteration with [bang~]?
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> > because with [bang~] you would get a single iteration per block, rather than as 
> > many iterations as you have time for ... which seems to be the intention of 
> > [nbuntil], and very useful where you might want to do a loop which may be too 
> > long for one cycle but you can wait and use the results when they are ready, 
> > after a few cycles perhaps.
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> Ah I see.  So it assumes iterations won't take a majority of a dsp tick.

No. Assume each iteration usually takes 5 ms under no load. If the CPU
core the Pd thread is currently running on is under 50% load,  one
iteration of the same task would use 10 ms. 
(This purely hypothetical, I haven't thoroughly tested those cases yet).

Roman