[PD] [SPAM] [pd~] and sharing sample tables

Ingo ingo at miamiwave.com
Sun Sep 22 17:48:44 CEST 2019


Thanks a lot, Cyrille!

I'll have to see howthis works and how I will get my 10,000+ tables to work 
with this.
Looks like I might have to do one by one or am I wrong?

Ingo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pd-list [mailto:pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at] On Behalf Of cyrille 
> henry
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2019 2:35 PM
> To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Subject: Re: [PD] [SPAM] [pd~] and sharing sample tables
>
> hello,
>
>
> Le 22/09/2019   13:49, Ingo a  crit :
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I have 3 questions about using the [pd~] object in an efficient way.
> > I'm trying to spread some heavy sample voices over multiple processor
> cores.
> >
> > 1)
> > How can I read from common sample tables (or other parameter tables as
> > well) without having to load all sample (1 GB of samples) multiple times?
> > In the back of my head I think I heard about a "share memory" library
> > but couldn't find anything so far.
> have a look at shmem, in deken.
>
> >
> > 2)
> > How can I assign a specific [pd~] process to a certain core?
> > Or does Pd automatically assign a new [pd~] process to another core?
> > It would obviously not improve anything if both patches were running
> > on the same cpu core .
>
> This is what the OS is made for. In my experience, it just work.
>
> >
> > 3)
> > Is there a way that the [pd~] subprocess can receive the [send]
> > objects directly from the main process without having to resend each
> > individual send/receive object to the inlet of the sub process and
> > without having to build a receive object and then resend it by
> > prepending a header that can resend everything within the sub process?
>
> No.
> but this workaround can be nicely hidden in an abstraction.
> you can create a [mysend] abstraction that is composed by a [send $1] and a
> [list prepend $1] connected to a [send to_my_pd_tilde_object] etc...
>
>
> >
> > I'm having a fairly large amount (185) of sends/receive objects and
> > tables (way more than 10,000 tables!).
> > Anything that might cut down the work and makes it more efficient to
> > run would be great!
>
> you can search and replace all "send" to "mysend" on a pd patch using any
> text editor.
>
> cheers
> C
>
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> > Ingo
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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