[PD] What exactly is a "stack overflow" ?

[Andy Farnell]

That's still 5 mins to burn through on an
"average machine" or quarter of an hour on a low spec.

Knock a couple of zeros off.

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:17:46 +0100
Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:

> Hallo,
> Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
> 
> > Until is the only conditional in Pd we have (unless you construct your own
> > messages with feedback arrangement) that gives a deferred conditional after
> > executing at least once, just like DO-WHILE or REPEAT-UNTIL. If you constrain
> > it with numbers then it's logically a FOR(range) construct. 
> 
> If people want to make sure to not be bitten by the endless loop, they
> could just use 
> 
>   [inlet]
>   |
>   [b]
>   |
>   [f 1000000000000]
>   |     [inlet]
>   |     |
>   [until]
>   |
>   [outlet]
> 
> as an abstraction called: [funtil] It will bang 1000000000000 times
> unless stopped, which is more bangs for the bang than most people
> would want.
> 
> Ciao
> -- 
>  Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
> 
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