[PD] GUI and DSP

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Mathieu Bouchard 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!"
> 
> 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).

That's an interesting idea, have you tried it?  Are you proposing to make all messages between 'pd' and 'pd-gui' binary?  Or this would be only for sending chunks of data, like arrays?

.hc

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