[PD] print all abstractions and externals
João Pais
jmmmpais at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 8 10:58:57 CEST 2008
>> I meant the latest usable (which I have installed) builds of
>> pd-extended, and the last version of
>> pd-vanilla-without-documentation-about-data-strucutures-and-so-on (also
>> being unfair).
>> I haven't being using pd too much these days for sound, but in the last
>> builds of pd-ext I didn't notice anything that was behind pd-van.
>> before I was using pd-van .41 because of the symbol grab feature in the
>> data structures (which I only know about because I requested it, it's
>> not documented). as this feature is now possible in the current build
>> of pd-ext, I notice no differences between them.
>
> ok, but this seems to be a bit subjective evaluation.
it's not scientific at all, and I haven't been following the news.
> by any chance, you are not running an amd64 system? (this is getting hot
> ground for me, as i am not so sure whether PdX actually does have some
> x86_64 patches incorporated; but chances are low....)
my new desktop is a 64 d-core intel, I have windows and ubuntu there. it's
still new, so I didn't work much with it so far. in windows works well,
but I can't get ubuntu to access my quite normal home network, so I didn't
got further on that. I can do some testing, if you want (just tell me what
to do).
> and you are probably also not very interested in audio-computation on
> demand...
my stuff isn't the most demanding in terms of cpu. I either play in my
trio www.endphase.net (our patches aren't that heavy), or for my private
composition tools, which in these days do more information than audio
processing. I never even opened up a vst plugin in pd so far, and I'm
happy with latency of 70ms in windows for now (didn't fiddled enough in
ubuntu to try to bring it lower than that).
> after all, if you don't need all the list-stuff and
> multiple-dollarg-expansion ($1-$2), you might as well not notice a
> difference between 0.39 and 0.40....
I can't even be sure of what you're talking about, so probably I don't (or
maybe I would, if I was aware of it?). Were they properly documented
somewhere?
The one detail that made me stick to pd-van-.41 for a while was the
"symbol" option in [struct] and the [set -symbol] feature (because of an
important patch for me) - which I only know about because I asked for it
(it's not documented, I think). Besides that I don't know exactly what are
the benefits.
But in a general remark I would say that pd-ext is making a very big step
in improving the quality of the interface and its integration in the
system (I speak mainly of windows) - as also with the developper
community. That's an important step for users that aren't willing to make
a big effort to stick with pd or have better things to do with their time
[please don't bring up the "if they would really want it..." argument].
pd-van should check that out and try to catch up at some time as well (or
just fuse into pd-ext, if there are no differences in quality - I'm not
qualified to judge that).
João
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