[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1263139 ] Startup messages too verbose

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Personally I will just edit the verbosity out anyway in my version of
> Zexy. But maybe it's a more general problem: Zexy is one of the bigger
> libraries, and it alone produces 337 lines of output on startup (yes, I
> counted). But other externals also send their messages along on load
> (mine do, too) so with a growing number of externals the startup message
> overload will be even bigger. I'm not really sure, what to do about
> this, but it can get annoying, don't you think?

Perhaps Zexy's externals could be combined to form one big library. Then
we wouldn't have this problem and it would take many less filehandles (one
or two per loaded external) and also less RAM as there wouldn't be as
nearly as much fragmentation in the code segment. (think of the PDA's!)

Ok, I'm kidding / trolling / etc: What I'm saying is true but the RAM 
savings aren't too significant given the ridiculously high amounts of 
RAM we have nowadays. :-)

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