Re: [PD] libpd separating gui from core

Hi,

just to give some example of single vs multi-threaded, and some comparison points.

• projects like haproxy and lighthttpd show that good state

machine programming can be more efficient that multi-threaded programming, even on multi-core computers. BUT they handle a much reduced number of use cases.

• graphics chipsets are massively parallel. They handle huge amounts of

data. BUT they are hard to build, they also handle a much recuced number of use cases, CUDA and OpenCL being a generalization.

• vvvv (on windows) has its core single-threaded, and a lot of objects

are multi-threaded, just like pd. It suffers the same than pd: when you get interactive with the GUI, the framerate slows down dramatically.

• whitecat (a DMX software) has its GUI that runs on OpenGL, and it's

not that efficient.

In the case of PD, maybe just a good mix of libpd and a generalization of pd~ can improve things much.

Take all this as small talk, I don't know much about core pd anyway :-/.

Cheers,