[PD] Very large patches unstable?

[cyrille henry]

hello,

i made some patch that use 98454 abstractions.
it certainly is very long to load, and almost impossible to save.
but if your are patient, pd vanilla is solid like a rock.

Cyrille


Stephen Lucas a écrit :
> I'm experiencing some instability with a patch that is very large.
>  
> Basically, I have an abstraction that does some calculations between a 
> send and receive, whose names are controlled by the creation arguments 
> of the abstraction.
>  
> I made a little patch to create 68x68 of these (yes, I really need that 
> many), and correctly place them on the canvas so that they don't overlap 
> graphically. As far as I can tell, they all created fine and I even 
> managed to save the patch. I did use a text editor to manually increase 
> the size of the canvas, since message based object creation will not 
> automatically resize the canvas if something will be past the bounds of 
> the canvas.
>  
> I've been getting inconsistant problems (crashing) with what I can only 
> assume is an issue with a patch this large (4624 objects). If I 
> understand things correctly, these abstractions do not have any DSP 
> objects and should not be consuming large quantities of system resources 
> if they're just hanging around, waiting to be used. I suspect the 
> problem may mainly be linked to actually looking at the patch, which I 
> don't need to do, but I don't feel confident using a patch that is 
> always cheating death. If I don't look at the patch and just load it as 
> an abstraction in another patch, it seems much more stable, but still 
> takes a long time to create, delete, open, or close.
>  
> Has anyone else seen this problem and am I crazy for trying to do this? 
> In Max I probably would have tried to approach this using poly~, but I 
> don't know any objects in pd that have similar methods of creating 
> several instances of an abstraction. If this is simply a problem of 
> having a very large canvas, I could compartmentalize the abstractions to 
> solve that.
>  
> Thanks to anyone who puts in their 2cents.
>  
> -Stephen
> 
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