Paul Winkler writes:
>--Also, the difference reported was about 25%, which could quite
>possibly be accounted for by the different compilers used for the two
>Csound versions. This is pure speculation on my part.


I would have thought the mwerks compiler would be faster than gnu (also pure
speculation)...

I don't know what multitasking code is currently in the mac build... but a
long time ago when I built the CsoundRB binaries... I used a method that
called GetNextEvent() or similar every processing loop (or atleast
sometimes) to allow background processing. I don't know if this method is
being used at the moment - but if it is I could believe that this would
cause a 25% performance degredation.

Ross.