On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Kjetil Matheussen < [email protected]> wrote:
> >> Thanks guys, it looked from what I could see on the port audio page that > >> only non-blocking was supported, but Gary said on the stk list that it > >> might be possible with the python wrappers in the rtaudio package. I > >> realize it's probably not going to be practical as a long term solution > >> ( > >> though I sure with it were possible ) but as I actually earn my living > >> coding python and am a total C++ amateur, it's probably worth saving > >> some > >> frustration figuring out architecture in a python prototype. I'm ok with > >> high latency for now. > >> > >> Kjetil, do you know if anyone has experimented with a real time memory > >> allocator for Python? > >> > > > > No, I don't know. > > Are you sure you need to use Python? There are other high level languages > > letting you do this, which are much faster than Python. > > LuaAV for Lua is the most obvious since Lua is the same > > type of language as Python. Other alternatives I know of are Faust, > > Kronos (if it's available now) and Snd-RT. > > (Of those last three, you should look at Faust first.) > > > Well, I code in Python for a living, so as far as maximizing developer time it makes sense! And there are a lot of nice libraries out there for doing things in Python ( gui, midi, osc interfaces, etc ) iain
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