Re: AUGraph and DP macs
Re: AUGraph and DP macs
- Subject: Re: AUGraph and DP macs
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:49:13 +0100
Internal threading is necessary for reasons other than load-balancing
within the plugin (which, I agree, is unnecessary unless the plugin uses
crazy amounts of CPU). It's very useful for disk streaming instruments,
though.
At 03:25 PM 7/31/2003 -0700, Glenn Olander wrote:
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That's why I was surprised at your implication that such
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an AU exists. I would think that internal threading would
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be considered pathological since, at the very least, it
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would undo the efforts of any hosts (e.g. Logic, Digital
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Performer, etc.) to perform load balancing.
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- Glenn
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Bill Stewart wrote:
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> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Glenn Olander wrote:
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>> Thanks Bill. It's not a big deal, I just wanted to know.
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>> I'm not sure I follow your comment about an AU with high
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>> priority internal threading causing problems if the host
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>> uses threading. Are you saying there is an AU which
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>> does not permit the host to put the render calls into
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>> threads? Wouldn't such an AU fail to work in Logic (or
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>> digital performer, or cubase if it was to support AU's)?
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> No - I was thinking more about it the other way... If the rendering
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> itself is threaded, but particular AU's are internally using threads,
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> then by threading the rendering process (and being able to "do more"),
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> you may then cause these threaded units to not have enough time to do
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> their thing - you may end up robbing peter to pay paul - does that make
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> sense?
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> Bill
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>> - Glenn
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