Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] News about sequencers (not my own though!)
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: pe tammi 21 2000 - 03:48:22 EST
jfm3 wrote:
> One can use an incremental collector, which causes all allocations to happen
> in constant bounded time.
>
> For time critical real time sections, one can just lock a larger portion of
> memory (and other resources) before entering the section, then prohibit
> garbage collection until the section is complete.
I don't think I'm going to hack python's memory management... that's
a few too many levels above my head. :)
> > Further, speed might be a serious problem.
> > Even if it could be acceptable to eat 80% of the CPU time, you have to
> > buffer the results (and output them using some streamlined function,
> > preferably in native code), to get rid of the jitter that grows with
> > execution time.
>
> In my experience, most modern interpreted language systems don't have this
> problem.
does your experience include python? what have you done with it?
thanks
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