[PD] libpd separating gui from core

[Charles Goyard]

Hi,


> >In the case of PD, maybe just a good mix of libpd and a generalization
> >of pd~ can improve things much.
> 
> [pd~] deals with the particular case of creating an extra dsp thread, it
> incurs overhead to do so and does not isolate the dsp from a busy patch. It
> is quite orthogonal to creating separate gui, video, audio or whatever
> threads.

Ah, I see the distinction now.


> Something to really make pd parallel would involve treating fan-outs as
> opportunities for the interpreter to launch each branch in a new thread,

This is more like what I understood/infered. The idea is to put the
burden of parallel programming from the guy that writes a patch to the
pd developpers :).

Thanks for the details Simon,

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Charles