I think there's a slight penalty but it's not enough to worry about in most systems. Anyway, when you don't have any choice, best thing is to just do it :)
M On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 02:03:48AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > Hi there, recently, I had to use the adat outputs of my audio card in Pd, > but these channesl are from 16 to 24 (they skip all the analog outs plus > some other things like SPDIF). My question is, if I ask Pd to work with > that much audio outputs (24 of them), but only use a couple of outputs > (like [dac~ 17 20] for example), is it more expensive on the CPU compared > to if I only have 2 outputs and use [dac~ 1 2]? > > In short, does the cost depend only in the number of outputs in a [dac~] > object? > > Moreover, does the number of [dac~] objects make a difference? For > instance, having one [dac~] with many outputs costs the same as different > [dac~] objects for each output? > > I always had the idea that too many outputs could really mean a lot more > cpu cost, but I'm not sure now if that cost is really real or relevant. > what do you say? > > thanks > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
