[PD] GUI and DSP

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-02-08 à 11:55:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :

> While technically correct that's misleading because there's a lot of 
> stuff happening on the 'pd' side that a reasonable person would assume 
> to be handled on the 'pd-gui' side.  Well, more than that-- there's 
> stuff happening on the 'pd' side that doesn't need to happen at all, but 
> it can use massive amounts of CPU and consequently a reasonable person 
> gets dropouts when moving an array that has only 100 points visible and 
> erroneously thinks, "Wow, I get dropouts just moving some polygons 
> around on the screen? Tk stinks!"

Besides, you could save some cpu, ram and bandwidth if all those array 
floats were hex-encoded instead of dec-encoded. Don't use "%g" nor "%d" 
when you can use "%x" and similar... especially fixed-width %x such as 
"%04x".

If Tcl had fast base64 support (like Perl/Ruby), the difference would be 
even bigger. And it would bigger with the ability to send binary data 
(which can't happen now because "}" counts as end-of-block).

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