[PD] number boxes and GOP under Windows

[Damian Stewart]

Has anyone noticed some nasty performance issues over time running patches 
with number boxes and GOP?

Number boxes seem to affect performance proportionately to how many times 
they've changed. Leaving a patch open that has multiple number boxes that 
change a few times every second (for example bars:beats:ticks timer) for an 
hour or more can sometimes bring my system to a grinding halt. Restarting 
PD and reloading the patch usually fixes it.

This seems to exacerbated if the number boxes are within a GOP canvas, and 
even more so if said GOP canvas is contained in another GOP canvas (for 
example, a GOP VU inside a GOP preamp).

My immediate guess is that the number box code is doing dynamic memory 
allocation, and fragmenting memory over time. Is this a PD thing or a 
tcl/tk thing?

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Damian Stewart
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