[PD] Ever divorce from Tcl/Tk? (Was Re: puredata_gui_design)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 6 May 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Some parts are extremely slow, like array redrawing and moving of items 
> on the canvas.  These particular things can sometimes generate 1 
> megabyte a second of Tcl code.  The same could be achieved by sending 
> the right 1 kilobyte per second, or even less.

if bunches of floats could be sent in binary, it would save a lot of 
"bandwidth", too, but not as much as if they were trimmed to the strict 
minimum... we don't need 32 bits of precision to display on screen : 12 is 
enough.

the actual problem is not so much the "bandwidth", but all the parsing and 
unparsing. the [binary] command of Tcl can make things faster.

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