Well, then I'm simply out of the loop and mostly-off base. Woops, sorry. I'll go there and see if we can keep it going. Looks like we're talking about both multi-threading and multi-instances which would be a big move towards solving some fundamental problems.

Also, it's not really a discussion any more, I turned it into a rant. :P In any case, I'd rather let my frustration be known and apologize later than sit by and *hope* for updates. In any case, if I can be helpful I'm more than willing to pitch in and get things done.

On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> wrote:

Hi all - just a short note since this discussion is much too wode-ranging to
address in full...

2. Would the result of this work be accepted by Miller and become vanilla?

As history has shown, the chances are limited. Again, there is probably a good way to do it where you could choose whether to use a single or multithreaded core but the real stakeholders are absent from the discussion.


I think the main stakeholders are Pd users :)

Anyhow, there's a useful discussion thread about pdlib instancing here:

http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2013-12/019693.html

and there's a wonderful series of talks underway at IRCAM about the problems
of real-time media computing in general:

http://repmus.ircam.fr/mutant/rtmseminars

cheers
Miller

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