[PD] call for testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I think there are advantages to having the GUI be a separate process,
> and it would be worth exploring other ways of havning pd and pd-gui
> talk.  Shared memory is one idea.  Plus for things like arrays, the data
> could be sent as binary thereby skipping the string parsing aspect.

Look at how [#see] sends hex codes instead of decimals. Also, chop off the 
decimals you don't need. If you send ints instead of floats, and use a 
12-bit range for stating y-position, every point could fit in 3 hex chars.

I say hex instead of base64 because base64 is not built-in in Tcl, 
therefore it's slower to handle.

But the only way to completely bypass all parsing is to use a 2nd socket. 
I haven't finished making something for that.

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