[Pd] Stack Overflow

[Chuckk Hubbard]

I don't understand.  I've understood recursive to mean a function that
calls itself within itself.  The output from my patch retriggers the
patch, but to my understanding it should all be determinate; if Pd
uses depth-first message passing, it should finish with one thread
before calling the next.  The abstraction is only retriggered from its
left outlet, so nothing should happen during the 10 ms delay.

I'm also not sure how [until] will help.  Pd doesn't know how many
scalars the score has, or how many are of any one structure.

I'm still not clear on what "the stack" is or what makes it overflow.
Thanks.

-Chuckk

On 3/23/06, Tim Blechmann <TimBlechmann at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:59 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone explain more about what exactly "stack overflow" is?  Might
> > it help if I just put a 1 ms delay for each scalar?
>
> you've written a recursive patch, so each recursion increases the
> interpreter stack ... if your recursions are happening too often ...
> booooooom ... :-/
>
> it's probably better to solve something like this with an iteration,
> which doesn't use the stack ... in pd it can be done with the |until|
> object ...
>
> hth ... tim
>
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