OSX slow GUI [WAS: Re: [PD] Metro unstable osx]

[sara kolster]

Hi Hans,
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> I was well aware of the slowness of the Pd GUI on Mac OS X, but its 
> news to me that its actually slower than older versions.  That would 
> be very good to test.  Tigital did a bunch of work streamlining the 
> Tk/Aqua stuff to use CoreGraphics, which should speed things up quite 
> a bit.  I am wondering what makes things go slower with newer versions.
>
I am still using the 0.37.1 PD-version(on osx.3.9) for the exact same 
reason that the newer versions of pd are super slow. Opening up my 
performance interface (using quite a few abstractions) and trying to 
push a toggle or bang is nearly impossible. No response at all.

As you, I am puzzled by the fact what changed in the newer versions 
which makes the pd-GUI slower than the older versions. I'm using the 
0.37.1 version without X11 and i'm using the tcl/tk 8.4.9 (wish shell). 
I'm not a great fan of using X11, but if that would help figuring out 
what went different in the production of the newer pd-versions, than 
that would be worth trying.

Sara
> One thing that tigital is proposing, which I think would be worth 
> trying, is making a Fink/X11 version of Pd.  This should get around 
> the slowness of Tk/Aqua, but would mean that you need X11 to use that 
> version of Pd.


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> .hc