[PD] Strange bug in my patch

[Matteo Sisti Sette]

Caio Barros escribió:
> But, Matteo, if the patch 
> don't create objects dynamically It will always be limited by the number 
> of allocable objects, isn't it? 

Yes of course. However, infinite does not exist in real life. There must 
be a number that you can assume your number of objects never exceeds. In 
any case, your number of (even dynamically created) objects will always 
be limited to the number of objects that don't eat up your CPU and 
memory. So you can have as many statically created objects as that: if 
they are only switch~ed on when used, they won't consume CPU.

However I understand this would be a radical change in architecture for 
your patch and if you get the dynamical solution working there's no 
reason to change that.

> 
> But why again dynamic object creation is not officially supported? It 
> works fine in pd vanilla, wich was the one I used to build this patch, 
> but it does have some problems. Isn't it usefull?

I think it is because
A) it does not offer an enough elegant, clean, and complete interface 
(by interface I mean the kind of messages you use to do it)
B) it allows you to do things that will hang (or maybe even crash?) Pd

It is a "low level" implementation feature (the creation of objects by 
hand and the construction of patches when loaded are both implemented in 
terms of messages that dynamically create objects) that is left 
"exposed" to the user without (by now) all the needed safety mechanisms 
(which would be very hard to implement and probably even to devise).

I don't think it's not considered useful: if it weren't, it would have 
been "inhibited" (or not "exposed").
(sorry for the algebraic negations)

Anybody please correct me where I'm wrong.



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