[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc1 released

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Which part loads super slow?  There could be other things at play  
there.  How fast is your machine?  Which platform?

It is possible with custom preferences to cause a massive CPU spike  
on startup, if you forget to include the npath or nloadlib tags.

.hc

On Jun 6, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Matthew Logan wrote:

> Yes, it loads super-slow.  Or should I say sub-slow.  Is it because  
> of the fancy gui look? (compared to the last extended release)
>
> On 6/6/08, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:29 AM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
> > I notice that pd is much slower now to open up patches with gops,  
> using
> > cpu at 100% sometimes for 1/2 a minute. is that normal?
> > after loaded, the patches run as normal. this happens since the
> > colorscheme option in hcs/sys-gui was introduced (I updated after  
> that)
> > I think it's related with the number of gops in the patch. I have  
> a kind
> > of small 4-voice seq utility with several gops on top of each  
> other, and
> > on xp it takes almost a minute (takes less in ubuntu)
> >
> Ha, a minute is nothing : ).  I just decided to time the opening of my
> performance/composition suite (made up of 16 drum modules and a
> sequencer) and it took...
>
> /fourteen minutes/ and 22 seconds.
>
> Is anyone versed enough in Pd's loading sequence to explain how it can
> run the patch (mostly) flawlessly but take a quarter of an hour to
> open it? (on a 2.8g mac pro)
>
> I'll try it with vanilla sometime when I get the energy to collect the
> many externals I use.
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> > XP, 0.40.3-extended-20080603 [with custom colorscheme, but that  
> probably
> > has nothing to do with it]
> >
> >
> >> For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI  
> and
> >> user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new visual  
> look
> >> that was designed to make patches more readable. Additionally, lots
> >> of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave more like a normal  
> app.
> >> There has already been a lot of testing on these builds, so it is
> >> getting quite close to a final version. (Debian/PowerPC is missing
> >> now but will come later)
> >>
> >> http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
> >>
> >> Here is a partial changelog:
> >>
> >> - next visual appearance designed for readability (it can run  
> slower
> >> on machines < 1 GHz)
> >>
> >> - default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc.
> >>   GNU/Linux:  /usr/share/pd and ~/pd
> >>   Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd
> >>   Windows: %ProgramFiles%/Common Files/Pd and %UserProfile%/
> >> Application Data/Pd
> >>
> >> - lots of standard key bindings added:
> >>       Enter/Return for OK
> >>       Escape for Cancel
> >>       Ctrl/Cmd-W closes all windows
> >>       on Mac OS X, Cmd-` cycles thru open windows
> >>       on Mac OS X, Cmd-m minimizes windows
> >>       Ctrl/Cmd-R raises/lowers Pd window
> >>       Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-R shrinks/grows Pd window
> >>       Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-L clears Pd window's text console
> >>       Ctrl/Cmd-B opens the Help Browser
> >>
> >> - you can now use "~" in all paths to mean home folder, and on
> >> Windows you can use environment variables, lie %UserProfile% in  
> paths
> >>
> >> - cut/copy/paste now work directly into text boxes on all platforms
> >>
> >> - [declare] and [import] now sorted out for loading, much work  
> needs
> >> to be done before there namespace support is complete
> >>
> >> - "File -> Save As" defaults to the Home folder (~/)
> >>
> >> - fixed Cut/Copy/Paste for the Pd window's console
> >>
> >> - included pgp_opengl aka 3dp on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
> >>
> >> KNOWN BUGS
> >>
> >> - check http://puredata.info/dev/bugtracker before reporting bugs
> >>
> >> - Escape, Enter, and Ctrl/Cmd-W don't close the Path and Startup
> >> preferences
> >>
> >> - pdp_opengl is alpha and will definitely crash Pd
> >>
> >> - loading pdp_opengl will crash Pd if X11 is not open before trying
> >> to load it
> >>
> >>
> >> .hc
> >>
> >>  
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