if you're not realtime, your main process could get yanked by the scheduler too.... seems more like "realtime vs not-realtime" than "threads: yes/no".
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >> using "threats" does not mean that things have to get non-deterministic, >> and indeed a lot of software uses threads and stays completely >> deterministic. > > Suppose that you launch a second fred on another cpu. How do you synchronise > the main fred and the second fred together so that the main fred doesn't > have to wait ? Sounds to me like a big issue with multi-fredded > applications. You can't guarantee that the second cpu will run the fred when > the first fred will want to, because fredding is dependent on the cpu's > availability and the OS's scheduler's decisions. > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
