[PD] TkWidget library

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Oct 31 17:51:15 CET 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, cdr wrote:

>> How about also checking out if there would be any other alternative to
>> Tcl/Tk? It's still quite slow, and some not so uncomplicated things (like
>> a gui element in a gop) take lots of cpu for what they give.
> a lot of this has nothing to do with TCL/Tk being slow, but PD using C 
> string manipulation to generate Tk commands..then piping them over the 
> client<>server socket. many times a second, per object, in the audio 
> thread. etc..

This is not what João is talking about. Yes, Tcl/Tk is slow, especially 
the Tk part. The problem with sending big Tcl commands over a socket all 
of the time, is that it's a bad separation of responsibility between 
threads ... but only people who want to modify the GUI itself might care 
about client-server separation of responsibility, and usually they don't.

The client-server separation happens to be a nice occasion to do 
consolidations of code such that it becomes easier to optimise, but it 
doesn't mean that the opportunity to do the optimisation itself has really 
been exploited so much by DesireData.

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