On 19-10-2017, at 7:31 AM, Todd Blanchard tblanchard@mac.com wrote:
It works very well and this idea of mini worker images sounds like it might be a good fit for that model.
One thing I noticed with surprise was how astonishingly fast Dave’s OSProcess could spawn an entire image, even on a Pi. So it might be worth experimenting with spawning a child image to do some processing and maybe transmit results back via sockets or writing a project file or.. well, whatever. You might think that on a tiny thing like a Pi you would rapidly use up all memory and start disastrous paging to SD (ouch!) but a Pi has a Gb or ram and my 6.0alpha development image uses less than 9% of that.
It’s a potentially simple way to make some use of multiple cores.
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