[chuck-users] now v.s. actual time

[Tom Lieber]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a conflict between how ChucK will never let go of  "now" and how
> we'd ideally prefer audio not to break up. When something has to give (like
> when we tell ChucK we instantly want to know ten million square roots) it's
> the audio that gives.

The way every UGen does this is to precompute.

> I suppose that what I'm looking for
> is a way to yield to the Ugen graph,( which is the strongest link between
> ChucK's time and the stuff on my clock), give it the CPU to calculate what
> it needs to calculate (which may well be nothing right now), then give me
> the CPU back.

Yielding to the UGen graph is exactly the same as yielding to the
other shreds. The UGens are in lock-step with the shreds for the
purposes of strong timing.

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Tom Lieber
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