[PD] Very large patches unstable?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net> wrote:

> From: cyrille henry <ch at chnry.net>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Very large patches unstable?
> To: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at artengine.ca>
> Cc: "PD-List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:36 PM
> 
> 
> Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, cyrille henry wrote:
> > 
> >> i made some patch that use 98454 abstractions. it
> certainly is very long to load, and almost impossible to
> save.
> > 
> > What can make any patch longer to save than to load?
> I'd like to know. Normally, using abstractions makes it much
> longer to load a patch than to save it.
> 
> in the patch i made that use so many abstraction, i have :
> abstraction_1 that have about 10 abstraction_2 inside.
> abstraction_2 use about 10 abstraction_3
> ...
> abstraction_5 use about 10 abstraction_6
> 
> if you save abstraction_2, then pd will have to reload all
> abstraction_2
> 
> this is lot's longer than loading the patch.
> 
> anyway, in order to reload abstractions, pd have to remove
> the old and create a new. this is longer than only create a
> new.

But saving the parent patch that holds all of these abstractions should 
take very little time.  I thought that's what you were talking about.

-Jonathan

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