[PD-dev] profiling the Tcl<->Pd connection

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If Tcl_Obj references were sent via sys_vgui instead of Tcl code, I  
think you could reduce the network traffic down to like 10% of what  
it is now.  Plus, using Tcl_Obj, each chunk of Tcl code would only be  
compiled once per run (the bytecode is stored as part of the  
Tcl_Obj).  It's not going to change the world, but I think it would  
be noticeable.

.hc

On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> I rather doubt this can relly help given the way Pd uses Tcl/Tk.
> (I still have a pet idea on the other hand of simply parsing the  
> TCL code
> and passing it to GTK :)
>
> cheers
> M
>
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:26:00PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> Now that I have discovered this bytecode caching feature, I am
>> curious if the changes I made have made any performance differences.
>> Also, matju mentioned that the bytecode caching probably works better
>> if reusing procs, so it could make sense to have sys_vgui calls use
>> Tcl procs, so that the bytecode gets reused.
>>
>> I was also thinking that perhaps sys_vgui communications could use
>> Tcl_Obj references instead of sending whole lines of Tcl, but that
>> might get overly complicated.
>>
>> .hc
>>
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