if you plan to stay pure-pd, using netsend/netreceive is probly more efficient for comm between the 2 instances of pd ..
[Jonathan Nelson]->[[PD] pd with SMP?]->[02-07-19 02:35]
| |Hello, | |I'm helping develop an installation using pd (linux). We are quite poor, |but still manage to have the choice between using a single celeron 533 MHz |processor, or a SMP system with two celerons running at 523 MHz. | |There are four cheap sound cards in this system to give us eight outputs. |I think these must all take their input from one pd, as we need to |smoothly move between them. | |The question is this: | |Is there a good way to take advantage of both processors in the SMP |configuration (and would this provide a significant performance gain over |a single processor)? | |Is Open Sound Control (OSC) the only way to do this (run a pd on each |processor, with a mixing stage in one of them, and OSC providing the |pipe)? Does anyone know if the overhead associated with OSC would make |this a bad idea? Anything better? Any simple solutions? | |I hope some of that made sense. | |Thanks! | |-j |