[PD] Pd-0.38.4-extended-RC7 & cyclone

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:57 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> a patcher. One thing I noticed while doing this is that pd (or is it  
>>>  the OS?) doesn't free memory when objects are deleted from a patch.
>> You also can't delete or change a .dll once Pd has opened it.  Pd  
>> keeps  the object in memory and the file locked until it quits.
>
> while this is not necessarily related to the memory usage of an  
> external, it should rather read:
> "Pd keeps the object in memory and w32 locks the file until pd quits."
> and it should even rather read ("...and w32 attempts to lock...")

Yes, that is correct.

> just yesterday i happily discovered that i could circumvent this  
> locking, while having pd loaded an external and at the same time  
> compiling this external and replacing the .dll-file (whether this  
> makes english sense is another question which i cannot answer)

Does Pd then reload the newly compiled DLL?  That would be quite handy  
when testing.

.hc
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