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. ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
