21 Feb
2014
21 Feb
'14
1:20 p.m.
Hi,
In the case of PD, maybe just a good mix of libpd and a generalization of pd~ can improve things much.
[pd~] deals with the particular case of creating an extra dsp thread, it incurs overhead to do so and does not isolate the dsp from a busy patch. It is quite orthogonal to creating separate gui, video, audio or whatever threads.
Ah, I see the distinction now.
Something to really make pd parallel would involve treating fan-outs as opportunities for the interpreter to launch each branch in a new thread,
This is more like what I understood/infered. The idea is to put the burden of parallel programming from the guy that writes a patch to the pd developpers :).
Thanks for the details Simon,
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Charles