On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 08:45:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Le Mardi 21 Novembre 2006 04:43, Chris McCormick a écrit :
> > I wonder if it would be possible to compile PDa to run inside each of
> > the 7 SPEs and a main Pd to control them from the main CPU. 
> 
> I doubt it. I haven't really looked at PDa, but I suspect it is still too big 
> to fit in a SPE local memory (256Kb code+data).
> Moreover, the SPEs are stream processors: you can't just throw at them code 
> written for a general purpose cpu and expect them to run it efficiently.

So probably better for something like running individual externals
(or a couple) than running a whole copy of Pd. As someone said, Pd's
architecture might need a little bit of help to utilise that facility
then.

Chris.

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