CPU cores usage?

[lokkiikkol]

more of a general question. this is on OS X 10.15.7

how does element handle multiple cores? is the load distributed over different cores on multicore CPUs? for instance if i open 4 plugins in a graph, will they use different cores?

or would it make more sense to run multiple instances of element for that?

thanks

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[mfisher31]

Right now Element does not support multi-core processing and is also single instance. I'm considering opening it up to run as multiple instance though. Going to be experimenting with that soon and if breakage is low, will probably enable it for good. Keep in mind if I do it, it won't have instance-to-instance sync (not to start with anyway)

[lokkiikkol]

I see. Multicore Support in a single instance is hard to do I guess? I think PureData pulls this off, by creating an object pd~ which is basically a new instance of pd with connections for audio and messages to the main patch. Maybe element could have a graph in graph object that uses another CPU core...

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