[PD] libpd - Multiple instances of Pd

[Miller Puckette]

This is what I'm working on right now :)  I have a post about it ont he Pd list
(January?) but have a student coming so have no time to search for it ATM
cheers
Miller


On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 06:46:01PM +0000, Giulio Moro via Pd-list wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if this is still a wanted feature and if anyone did some further work on this beyond what is here 
> https://github.com/libpd/libpd/blob/master/samples/c/pdtest_multi/pdtest_multi.c
> 
> I peeked through the Pd Vanilla (0.46) source code last night, and I am under the impression that in order to allow more instances to coexist in a thread-safe way, all it takes is for each instance to have its own copy of "t_pdinstance *pd_this"  and for all the calls that currently use the global pd_this to take an additional argument "
> t_pdinstance *pd_that".
> But I also think that if it was that easy, someone else would have tried already.
> So, before I dig into it just to hit a well known limitation, does anyone want to share their experience?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Giulio
> 
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