[PD] how to set variable types

[AshK]

ok thanks for the advice I'm going to try both. And about the speed it 
makes no doubt the linux version is incredibly faster; on some patches 
macosx runs at about 90% of the cpu while linux is at 20%.

derek holzer wrote:
> Just as a note... I've been using Miller's version of Pd 0.39 on Gentoo 
> Linux/PPC since last December without any serious problems. In fact, it 
> runs better, faster and more stable than on OSX on the same machine. You 
> might consider compiling that version over the extended version and see 
> if that makes a difference for you. It could be some "extended" aspect 
> of the code which is giving problems rather than core PD or Tcl/Tk.
> 
> best,
> d.
> 
> AshK wrote:
>> I tried the same patch on MacOSX and Debian and it seems to be a bug 
>> on the Linux build : I'm sending the outlet of [f $1] to both a number 
>> box and a [print] and in Linux the print returns the right value but 
>> the number box stays at 0 (yes sorry for the precedent statement it is 
>> not actually empty, it displays 0) but that same patch in MacOSX 
>> displays the same value in both the print area and the number box. 
>> That's why I thought I wasn't sending the right type to the number box 
>> since something was coming out for [print] but not for the number box.
>>
>> I built this pd extended from CVS about 2 months ago with help from 
>> Hans since it's on Linux/PPC and there were some problems. I guess I 
>> have to build it again.
>>
>> and I thought I was going to make music today :) I'm going to buy a 
>> guitar...
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