[PD] space efficiency

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, padawan12 wrote:
>> In a nutshell, is Pd reenterant?
>> In using an abstraction, is the code loaded only once and used in all 
>> instances? Or, in other words, is it more space efficient to use 
>> abstractions?
> No, it's more space-efficient to use abstractions,

it's NOT more space-efficient... typo... need more coffee...

> it's just brain-efficient (which is often more important).
>
> But this has nothing to do with the thing that I know as reentrancy, which in 
> pd terms, would be about whether you can send to the hot inlet from a chain 
> of actions that eventually came from the same object, and still keep the 
> documented behaviour; it's about whether you can make recursion of 
> control-flow.

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