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Re: [Cs-dev] Linux PPC

Date2006-11-12 21:02
FromVictor Lazzarini
SubjectRe: [Cs-dev] Linux PPC
what I noticed was that things like printing
messages to the terminal are quite costly on
OSX, due to the graphics system.

Strangely enough, my experience is that Jack is
worse than the other IO modules on OSX, but
Julian seems to report otherwise.

In any case, I have used Csound on OSX for RT
without any need for doing anything, even on a 500 MHz
G4. Simple PV stuff works OK without dropouts.

Of course, on the nice dual-processor 2.2 GHz G5, I
can do much more...

Victor

>
> but why would that affect audio-specifically? -- i
> wouldn't think Aqua was so bad that it would be eating up
> cpu when idle?
>
> if there is a significant difference, my guess would be
> things like unbuffered file i/o ( libsndfile, pvoc files,
> etc ), portAudio ( which was never very good on mac as far
> as i can tell ), and fltk (don't get me started.. )
>
> Julian: i would be interested to hear more details about
> your performance comparison -- what aspects are you
> looking at? ( real-time, commandline, python, etc )
>
> -m
>
> >
> >
> > I think what probably cripples OSX for audio processing
> > is Acqua; a lot of the CPU power seems to be devoted to
> > graphics.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >>
> >> Hello developers.
> >>
> >> Thanks for 5.04.  I'm happy to report that python is
> now >> working as  expected in OSX.
> >> In the last few days, I've been working with csound and
> >> python in ubuntu  linux for ppc.  I've set up my system
> to >> dual boot both ubuntu and osx  and have had the
> >> opportunity to compare the performance of csound and
> >> other applications side by side on the same hardware.
> The >> performance  difference is alarmingly in ubuntu's
> favor. >> As a result, I'm going to  steadily migrate from
> OSX to >> linux-ppc.
> >>
> >> I would like to offer my services in creating a
> linux-ppc >> package for  future releases of csound.  I
> have little >> experience with programming in  c so I
> would not be >> terrible helpful in other areas of
> development, but  I am >> quite comfortable checking out
> csound from cvs and >> building it on  my system.  I'm
> sure that with the advice >> of those on this list I could
>  quickly learn how to built >> a package for distribution
> that would be  useful for the >> minority of csound linux
> users on ppc hardware. >>
> >> At this time, I have built a version with fltk, osc,
> and >> jack support as  these are the features that I
> currently >> use in my own composing.  With  earlier
> versions I have >> built the Loris opcodes.  I was never
> able to >> successfully build the STK opcodes-- but have
> not tried >> for a few  versions (and gave up because I
> only had >> marginal interest in them).
> >>
> >> If you think that this would be useful for the csound
> >> community, I would  certainly be thrilled to have the
> >> opportunity to contribute to the  development of
> csound. >>
> >> Thanks again for all of your efforts.
> >>
> >>
> >> Julian Peterson
> >>
> >>
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