can someone tell me if one instance of pd (with gem) can use more than one core on multi-core processor?
Beyond the new stuff with [pd~], there is also threading in new versions of [soundfiler], and there is some threading in the input/output modules of GEM, such as cameras.
There is also other forms of multiprocessing involved : part of the management of the patch windows is happening in a separate process involving Tcl/Tk. Then, depending on your OS, there is some amount of multiprocessing involved : for example, in Linux, the default display system is X11, and then, using X11 is considered as a kind of network connection between separate programmes.
So, those are all manners in which patches can spread themselves on several CPUs. However, if you want to do heavy processing using [pix_...] objects (and/or GridFlow and PDP) then all of it will use only one CPU, except for some of the I/O modules as I said above.
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