[CM] some questions re S7, real-time use, and memory allocation

[Iain Duncan]

Thanks Bill, that sounds promising on the malloc front then. I'll take a
look at the code.

What I'm imagining right now is two s4m objects, one in high priority
thread and one in the low, so that the majority of stuff is done in the low
and the high is only used for lightweight timing critical tasks. If this
doesn't pan out, I can always do the high priority thread stuff in Max or C
instead, but it would be nice to be able to use S7 if possible. I *think* I
should be able to keep the stuff in the high priority thread minimal enough
to keep a handle on the garbage collection side, but dealing first hand
with a garbage collector is new to me. (As in, I've done some soft
realtime in C, and I've done work in GC'd languages, but none of that was
in situations where I cared when the GC ran). If you (or anyone else) has
pointers on how to learn more about that sort of thing, or how to watch
when the GC runs, I'm all ears.

thanks
iain

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:05 PM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> s7 calls malloc very infrequently; it has its own
> malloc (mallocate and friends), calling malloc
> only to get large blocks that it handles after that.
> More likely to be a problem is garbage collection.
> I haven't tried to use s7 in real-time, but I
> would expect it to be a struggle.
>
>
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