[PD] GUI speed

[João Pais]

> It can't be done without modifying Tk. But if I do modify Tk in a way  
> that
> puts the results in variables, then I can pick up the results in Tcl and
> send them back to Pd, so that, in addition to [cputime] which measures
> only server time, you'd have a few more measurements, such as total time
> spent in Tcl/Tk, total time spent in the Tk part, total time spend in the
> rendering part of the Tk part, total time spent parsing, etc.

that could be interesting to measure tcl/tk efficiency and etc. For  
example, once I had a data structures patch with gop, that took me around  
20% cpu. I put it on gem, and it went to 0% - it wasn't a rough patch, but  
I think the whole gop+graphics was taking too much cpu.