Re: R: [PD] New external on neural networks

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like creating a thread? Is out there an example of external using threading?

i'd rather not go for threads, as they are a pain in the whereever you want. crossplatform would become much harder.

well, i don't think that the equation "threads == evil", although it seems to be quite common among pd developers.

• as pd itself uses the pthreads, the only limitation of crossplatform portability would crossplatform portability issue of pd itself
• flext is offering a nice wrapper for threading libraries
• the equation "threads == locks && locks == evil" is not correct either. the lock-free fifos that are used for the idle callbacks in devel make it possible to have a lock-free thread synchronization and miller is planning to use them in 0.39. and even locks are only then evil, if a thread is being locked for too long.

cheers ... tim