29 May
2007
29 May
'07
7:32 p.m.
This has been a fascinating thread about the direction of PD.
I've been thinking about parallelism and PD as multi-core processors become common. How hard would it be to make PD able to take advantage of parallel architecture? I'm guessing that it is decidedly non-trivial, as lack of threading is already an issue in contention between the GUI and audio processing.
Without some support for parallelism, PD could be going as fast as it will ever go -- the trend seems to be that CPU speeds will not be climbing much (at least not dramatically like they have until now), and increasing numbers of cores will be the path to greater speed and power.
Is there any hope in this direction?
Phil Stone