Re: [sc-dev] SystemClock bug?

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, didn't read your example closely enough. Maybe
it is a queue size thing.

What happens if you schedule the 100 random number
posts within 20 seconds rather than 4?

James

--- James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have found repeatedly that scheduling too many
> events to fire too quickly reliably causes the
> language to crash. I don't believe it has to do with
> a
> scheduling size restriction, but rather with the
> number of functions that are executing
> simultaneously.
> You can get the same crash by scheduling complex
> functions so quickly that the execution overlaps by
> a
> high amount. If a function takes 0.1 seconds to
> return
> its result and you schedule the function to execute
> 200 times with 0.001 seconds between onsets, down
> she
> goes.
> 
> I don't see it as a bug, just a reasonable
> limitation.
> 
> This kind of scheduling could probably be made
> "safer"
> but that might have a negative impact on performance
> overall.
> 
> H. James
> 
> --- nikolai collinsky <nikolaicollinsky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > //this crashes SC3- 
> > 
> >
>
100.do({SystemClock.sched(4.0.rand,{1.0.rand.postln;})})
> > 
> > scheduling queue size restriction?
> > 
> > (can get round by converting absolute scheduling
> to
> > delta time scheduling to use less clocks but
> still,
> > would be nice to have safe scheduling
> > possibilities...)
> 
> 
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