I've recently been working with 80MHz machines that don't even have
FPUs, so I also care about oooold machines. (These little computers
are known as "iPods").
One thing that is definitely worth trying is to update to the latest
version of Tcl/Tk. They have done a lot of optimization in 8.5, I
think on X11 too.
Another thing to try is writing the GUI in a toolkit that is optimized
for speed. I don't know if you have a GPU, but if you wrote Pd GUI
objects using something like togl or tkzinc, both use OpenGL, that
could also help.
http://togl.sourceforge.net/ http://www.tkzinc.org/
.hc
On May 25, 2009, at 6:03 PM, danomatika wrote:
I've been running pd on my slow wearable (500Mhz) and, over the last
year, the performance has gotten worse. This trend coincides with
my greater understanding of pd and adoption of nice GOP guis.So basically, all of the work I have done to make an easy to use
environment for making songs/patches is practically worthless as the
GOP/gui stuff kills the cpu on the wearable. Nobody seems to care
as we all have exponentially faster computers each day, which is too
bad as one of pd's strengths in my opinion is it's ability to run on
basically anything.I'm just wondering if there are others with slow cpu (iPhone RJDJ)
machines and how their approach to patching deals with this issue.Basically, I have spent a whole year trying to get my system back to
the slim performance it had 1 year ago! I wish there was a wiki
entry noting all of these issues before I began. (yes yes I can
start one) (I also wish there was some sort of patching profiler ...
but thats mabey another issue.)*sigh* I've been getting burned by this for too long and I'm sitting
here replacing gui objects.
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