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diff --git a/NOTES.txt b/NOTES.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..11b9371 --- /dev/null +++ b/NOTES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +scratchpad for the development of iemnet +======================================== + +speed & syslocks +================ +one bottleneck right now is the synchronisation with Pd's +main thread to register a clock callback. +doing a sys_lock() whenever a package arrives will slow down things immensely. + +alternatives: + no sys_lock(): will eventually crash Pd (no option) + use sys_trylock(): this might eventually fail to notify Pd of newly arrived + packets (bad for throughput) + external polling: no syslock needed at all, but more complicated + keep track of clock_callback: "notified" flag tells us, whether we have already + sent a notification which has not yet been handled...no need to notify again + + #4 looks most promising |