[LAD] The Influence of the Actor Model (Praxis architecture 101)

[Neil C Smith]

On 28 July 2012 12:30, Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you mean a separate thread for GUI, this is still not there,
> unfortunately.
> Any GUI computing disrupts sound, which is why I am using Pd only as
> a midi sequencer for most of the time. This is very unfortunate. If the
> authors
> of Pd finally implement threading, it would be a big event.

That and more - GUI, video, resource (sample / image) loading, heavy
calculations etc.  I know there were some components that could load
resources in the background (essential for what I do), but at the time
they were a bit flaky, and had their own ways of doing things rather
than it being built into the core architecture.

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