On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:45:19PM +0100, Cyrille.Damez@laposte.net wrote:
Le Mardi 21 Novembre 2006 04:43, Chris McCormick a écrit :
I wonder if it would be possible to compile PDa to run inside each of the 7 SPEs and a main Pd to control them from the main CPU.
I doubt it. I haven't really looked at PDa, but I suspect it is still too big to fit in a SPE local memory (256Kb code+data). Moreover, the SPEs are stream processors: you can't just throw at them code written for a general purpose cpu and expect them to run it efficiently.
So probably better for something like running individual externals (or a couple) than running a whole copy of Pd. As someone said, Pd's architecture might need a little bit of help to utilise that facility then.
Chris.
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