Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 05/05/2015 18:12, martin brinkmann wrote: does something like this exist? afaik not, but i think it would be useful to have some more or less objective and comparable method to measure how well a system is suited for running pd. there was a test patch for rjdj on the ipod/phone which

Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-11 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 05/11/2015 10:48 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: One problem with (totally un-scientific) benchmarking I've seen on Linux (on laptops and with Jack Audio) is that there are a few factors sucha as cpu scaling, wifi on/off, swappiness.. and i'm wondering about swapiness...if your system does

Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-06 Thread katja
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:03 AM, martin brinkmann m...@martin-brinkmann.de wrote: but i think it lacks some message-processing, and maybe memory-access. Actually chaosmonster1 is heavy on memory access because of the feedback delay lines. But I just noticed [block~ 1] in the delay line

Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-06 Thread martin brinkmann
On 06/05/15 11:37, katja wrote: Actually chaosmonster1 is heavy on memory access because of the feedback delay lines. yes, but maybe the delays are small enough to fit in the cache (if the cache is big enough), and defeating the cpu cache would make systems with small or big cache more

Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-06 Thread martin brinkmann
On 05/05/15 20:48, katja wrote: - it runs with pd vanilla or extended - it has a realistic mixture of dsp objects but i think it lacks some message-processing, and maybe memory-access. http://www.katjaas.nl/doubleprecision/doubleprecision.html i have just tested 10 instances of chaosmonster

[PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-05 Thread martin brinkmann
does something like this exist? afaik not, but i think it would be useful to have some more or less objective and comparable method to measure how well a system is suited for running pd. there was a test patch for rjdj on the ipod/phone which consisted of simply as much osc~-objects as the device

Re: [PD] pure data benchmark?

2015-05-05 Thread katja
Hi Martin, As it happens, I often use your patch chaosmonster1 as pure data benchmark. Here's why: - it runs with pd vanilla or extended - it has a realistic mixture of dsp objects - it sounds cool Amongst others I used chaosmonster1 to benchmark pd in double precision, as shown in the table