Very similar machine to yours, Hans, except a little slower (MBPro 2 GHz. OS X 10.4.10)
19 ms. -- 0.49.3-extended-20071108 19 ms. -- 0.40.3-extended-20071011 17 ms. -- 0.39.3-extended
I'm curious what effect the dual-core is having on this, too. I thought I had chud loaded (Apple xcode tool to switch off a core), but I don't, and can't find the damn xcode tools disk. If I do, I'll post results w/ one core.
Phil
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I devised a quick test of loading speed and did some quick comparisons on my MacBook Pro 2.4GHz. (I am used to having one of the slowest machines around, my old 800Mhz Powerbook, so I still have to readjust my thinking). Here's my times:
14ms Pd-0.39.3-extended 6.5ms Pd-0.40-2 vanilla 16ms Pd-0.40.3-extended-20071111
So on the face of it, it looks like really large time differences.
Percentage-wise it is a large difference, but perceptually, waiting 7ms vs. 16ms for something to load is not at all meaningful. No human could tell the difference in the experience unless you were generating sounds and visuals based on the opening and closing of the patch.This is, of course, on a fast machine. 300ms vs 800ms would be a big perceptual difference, basically it would be the feeling of opening quick versus a wait.
I'd be interested to see how this fares on other machines and OSes. I attached the patches
.hc
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