Hi, just to give some example of single vs multi-threaded, and some comparison points.
- projects like haproxy and lighthttpd show that good state machine programming can be more efficient that multi-threaded programming, even on multi-core computers. BUT they handle a much reduced number of use cases. - graphics chipsets are massively parallel. They handle huge amounts of data. BUT they are hard to build, they also handle a much recuced number of use cases, CUDA and OpenCL being a generalization. - vvvv (on windows) has its core single-threaded, and a lot of objects are multi-threaded, just like pd. It suffers the same than pd: when you get interactive with the GUI, the framerate slows down dramatically. - whitecat (a DMX software) has its GUI that runs on OpenGL, and it's not that efficient. In the case of PD, maybe just a good mix of libpd and a generalization of pd~ can improve things much. Take all this as small talk, I don't know much about core pd anyway :-/. Cheers, -- Charles _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
