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norns is many sound instruments.
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re-examine main event system #778

Closed tehn closed 4 years ago

tehn commented 5 years ago
ranch-verdin commented 5 years ago

Just finished long stress soak at 75% sgynth load, 53% matron load (best guess 1000 messages per sec). 0 xruns and no increase of memory usage over a 4.5 hour run at 64fpp/2ppb. The test exercises metros, front-panel controls, cairo, OSC send. Several terminals open to norns over wifi during test (emacs session, top etc).

I think the remaining small 'leaks' detected by valgrind after https://github.com/monome/norns/pull/774 are things which are allocated only once and never freed, so only a problem in so much as they obfuscate valgrind results.

Anyone think an object pool will definitely give measurably better performance? Personally wouldn't like to bet either way!

catfact commented 5 years ago

Anyone think an object pool will definitely give measurably better performance? Personally wouldn't like to bet either way.

i'm willing to make only a very small bet, and the key word is "measurably." i just want to make the change b/c malloc in a realtime loop is decidedly gross.