On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:38 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > i guess if i can do it in userspace, it is possible in pd itself. > > possible is almost everything with software, but how much effort does > it need? rewriting pd? > though i am not too much a techie myself, i hear voices saying, that > despite the upcoming multicore-processor, pd won't be able to do > threading in the near future (which would be necessary in order to > make > use of the additional calculating power). from my understanding of > things, i'd say, that in order to avoid drop-outs on patch-load (or > file/audiosample-load), pd would require threading (please someone > correct me, if i am totally mistaken). afaik, pd-dev does already some > of it (e.g. when reading a soundfile into an array).
all threaded implementations of the soundfiler/sndfiler have the problem, that the dsp chain needs to be resorted after loading a file to a table ... so, an audio dropout will occur, when the dsp chain is resorted. tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 96771783 http://www.mokabar.tk I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx
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