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

cyrille henry ch at chnry.net
Sun Sep 22 23:34:44 CEST 2019



Le 22/09/2019 à 17:48, Ingo a écrit :
> 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?
Computer have been invented to automate repetitive task. I don't know what you have to do, but I'm sure you can find a way not doing it one by one.


C

> 
> 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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