[PD-dev] pdstring's crashing

[Bryan Jurish]

moin Martin,

Yep, I just had another glimpse at your [str] code too, and noted the
recent change ;-)

I suppose the best workaround for [any2string] is probably going to be
pre-allocation too, but it's too late for me to implement that tonight;
maybe tomorrow...

marmosets,
	Bryan

On 2007-07-25 01:00:48, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> appears
to have written:
> Bryan Jurish wrote:
>> all that allocation
>> and de-allocation at every message just makes my skin crawl... maybe we
>> should find a better way to do it... or just use Martin's string
>> patches ;-)
>>
>>   
> When I made the [str] external that uses the string atom, I found that
> constantly reallocating/resizing memory eventually crashed pd so I ended
> up just allocating a big wad of space up front for each [str]. If the
> user can set the initial size of this memory then the amount of wasted
> ram may be minimized, but the default is quite large.
> 
> Martin

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