Re: [sc-users] Re: will there ever be real multiprocessor support?

[James Harkins <jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Tim Blechmann <tim@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I agree... actually, if we can solve Wouter's issue, then figure out
>> how to tell scsynths to share memory, I think we could be a long ways
>> to where we need to go to get this to work with the current
>> architecture.
>
> hm, i don't really understand, how sharing resources would significantly
> improve the situation, except that one could share read-only resources ...
> from my understanding, such a system would be rather fragile if you
> cannot constraint the resource access from both dsp node queues ...

I'm with Tim on this. It would be risky and hard to use. I would worry
about getting this to "sort of" work and then saying later, ok, we
don't have to do real dsp multithreading because we "fixed" it this
way. (Of course it might not play out that way, but... at my
workplace, issues get "fixed" like this all the time with some
godawful workaround, so I can't help but be wary of it.)

It's a hard new feature either way, so my view is, if it's going to
take a lot of time, let's put in the time to do it properly on the
first go and have something more user friendly than multiple servers.

hjh


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