[PD] overall horrible performance in OS X

4 Feb 2008

      Hey guys,
This has been rehashed again and again, but it's worth bringing up

once more.
I've attached an example patch "sample-test-01.pd" and it's

dependencies.  On my dual core 2.4ghz Macbook Pro (4gb ram, 10.5.1, pd

extended 40.3-2007-12-07), I hit 21-27% cpu load
On my work machine, a 1.8ghz single core P4 running windows XP, the

cpu load is negligible (around 0-1%).
I've seen this pattern before, and I anticipate Linux users will

experience negligible CPU load as well with this example patch.  This

difference is pretty extreme, my notebook tests well on Geekbench and

other benchmarks, but why is the performance so poor with Pd?
I appreciate any insight you can give,
~bsoisoi