A few questions on how to write a host that might be doing a lot of 
other stuff at the same time as csound runs:

When I register a callback with csoundSetYieldCallback() and I am 
performing csound with csoundPerformKsmps(), I gather the callback 
function I register gets called when csound is done an audio pass and 
there is left over cpu time.

Does this get called after an audio buffers worth or after a ksmp worth?
Does this get called even if there is no left over cpu time? Ie 
absolutely every kpass?

What happens if the callback function does something long, can it starve 
csound or does it get automatically pre-empted? Would it be possible to 
simulate such a thing or implement that? Is it smart to spawn a new low 
priority thread from the callback to do long things that should not 
interfere with the csound thread? ( ie disk i/o )

What if the callback is short, but I want it to continue executing until 
csound needs the cpu back? Ie getting messages off an input queue and 
dealing with them. Does the callback get called repeatedly when csound 
is done it's pass or just once? What would be the smart way of having 
the callback continually process input messages until csound needs time 
again? I could have a loop, but then it needs to give time back to 
csound correct?

Also, if using csoundPerformKsmps() what would happen if I do a lot of 
other stuff in that thread after the call, will I starve csound if 
csound is running close to max, but be ok if there is cpu headroom?

Thanks
Iain


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Iain Duncan wrote:

> When I register a callback with csoundSetYieldCallback() and I am 
> performing csound with csoundPerformKsmps(), I gather the callback 
> function I register gets called when csound is done an audio pass and 
> there is left over cpu time.
> 
> Does this get called after an audio buffers worth or after a ksmp worth?
> Does this get called even if there is no left over cpu time? Ie 
> absolutely every kpass?

It is undefined how frequently the yield callback is called, but it is
expected to be called often enough so that Csound can respond to user
input within a reasonable amount of time. Also, it has nothing to do
with CPU usage when the yield callback is called.
In general, this callback is used to update the GUI in a single threaded
environment (e.g. by calling Fl::wait), and to request termination of
Csound performance by returning zero.


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