[PD-dev] broken msgs cause Tcl traces, how to debug it?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 12:45 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Le 2012-01-22 à 21:16:00, Miller Puckette a écrit :
> 
>> There's not much way around this.  One possibility (if indeed this is a serious efficiency issue) would be for Pd to append a "done" message to each batch up tcl to up-send.
> 
> That's called a newline... not preceded by a backslash. The thing with fconfigure -buffering line is that it doesn't care about backslashes, whereas eval does, and if you use both together, you need to account for that difference.

Switching to "fconfigure -buffering line" from "fconfigure -buffering none" did not change the size of chunks that were being executed.  They were definitely larger than a single line, really many lines.

.hc


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