[LAU] sending program change from the commandline

R. Mattes rm at mh-freiburg.de
Sun May 8 21:30:15 UTC 2011


On Sun, 8 May 2011 22:40:19 +0200, Renato wrote
> On Sun, 8 May 2011 10:40:24 +0200
> Emanuel Rumpf <xbran at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > But *beware* to use python for any serious (real-time)
> > midi-processing. Timing is bad and unreliable.
> >
> 
> how bad could it get? something like 1, 10 or 100 milliseconds?

Totally depends on what else runs in the Python instance. Read up
on Python's 'global interpreter lock' (GIL). BWT, most calls into C
invoke the interpreter lock (and C calls happen a lot in Python).

 HTH Ralf Mattes

> cheers
> renato
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