[PD] GUI and DSP

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

>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!"

Or you could simply use pd-l2ork and a move arrays and other complex graphical user interface objects using tags and never worry about that problem again.


>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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Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
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