[PD] [announce] py 0.0.1 python script object

Karl MacMillan karlmac at peabody.jhu.edu
Mon Apr 1 19:21:56 CEST 2002


On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 04:23, Josh Steiner wrote:
> i wonder how the jMax people deal with this as their gui is written in
> Java?  does anyone know? 
> 

The same way PD deals with Tcl/TK - by sending messages over a socket.
This could be described as threading with processes :)

Karl

> On 29 Mar 2002, jfm3 wrote:
> 
> > I worry a lot about this external, as well as about Joe Sarlo's GrIPD.
> > Python is not anywhere near a real time language. Run time environments
> > with automatic memory deallocation are very tricky to get to work in
> > bounded time. I worry that when a moderate to large amount of Python
> > code gets loaded, and the program runs for a while, its garbage
> > collection and paging behavior will cause timing failures in even simple
> > MIDI processing. Am I just being up tight about all music code being
> > bounded time, or does anyone else see this as a real issue?
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 20:51, Thomas Grill wrote:
> > > here is the first release of a simple python script object.
> > 
> > -- 
> > (jfm3)
> > 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________
> Josh .. Yoshi .. Joschi .. xiphoidprocess.com .. eds.org/~joschi
> 
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Karl W. MacMillan                                 
Computer Music Department                        
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
karlmac at peabody.jhu.edu                         
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