[PD-dev] CVS pd linux build updated and inventory of changes

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:

> The difference would be that non-resident strings don't clutter up the 
> symbol space.
> Once in a while i come across applications that produce textual output 
> (e.g. in video applications deailing with text or with gui stuff). In 
> PD there is no way to avoid that these string results don't get fed 
> into the symbol table and consequently slow down symbol lookup! until 
> PD is restarted.

Thanks for this explanaition. This sounds bad.

> I'd really appreciate the advent of garbage-collected strings in PD.

I think, that escaping then should be done right, which means,
that we also need a way to escape limiters. I don't know if the
current hack allows " inside a string.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__