[LAU] Bye Bye 32 bit

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Bill Purvis <bill at billp.org> wrote:

> On 27/12/17 15:16, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 02:22:58PM +0000, Bill Purvis wrote:
>>
>> If there is some cunning
>>> way to specify an actual number of cores to be used, then the person who
>>> wrote a program which uses that deserves to get lots of flak from people
>>> using that program!
>>>
>> Depends on how it's used. For example, Ardour allows you to
>> set the number of cores used. The default is 'all but one',
>> and that makes perfect sense.
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
> I think that simply limits the number of cores, no guarantee that they
> will all be
> used. If it runs lots of threads, as I assume it does, then the chances
> are it will
> use as many cores as are permitted.
>

​Fons description is correct.

Ardour carefully and deliberately creates as many realtime priority threads
for DSP as told to, based on the number of cores that should be used. ​
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