[PD] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC7 & cyclone

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
>> a patcher. One thing I noticed while doing this is that pd (or is it  
>> the OS?) doesn't free memory when objects are deleted from a patch.
> 
> 
> You also can't delete or change a .dll once Pd has opened it.  Pd keeps  
> the object in memory and the file locked until it quits.
> 

while this is not necessarily related to the memory usage of an 
external, it should rather read:
"Pd keeps the object in memory and w32 locks the file until pd quits."
and it should even rather read ("...and w32 attempts to lock...")

just yesterday i happily discovered that i could circumvent this 
locking, while having pd loaded an external and at the same time 
compiling this external and replacing the .dll-file (whether this makes 
english sense is another question which i cannot answer)


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