Perfect, thanks a bunch Claude. So, back to the first message from Marius, what are we going to do about this?
I regret that I have not yet mastered parallel programming, but would be game to help out in any way possible (even QA/testing if need be). ~Brandon On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > Brandon Zeeb wrote: >> More specifically, my question is: >> How does PD's performance scale when the number of available >> processing units increases from 2 to 4 and to 8 cores? Is the >> main engine written in such a way as to take advantage of this, or >> is it primarily a single-threaded? > > Pd's engine is a single thread, it will use at most 100% of *one* > core. > Pd's gui is a single thread, it will use at most 100% of *one* core. > > The communication between engine <--> gui is suboptimal, which might > limit things, but unlikely. > >> Besides running multiple copies of Pd, how does Pd scale on many- >> cpu systems? > > It doesn't. > > > Claude > -- > http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
