[PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.51-0 test 1 released

[Christof Ressi]

> so far i compiled nicolas danets “spaghettis” pd fork (https://github.com/Spaghettis/Spaghettis), but i guess its now time to try and compile pd myself.
> unless some kind and more knowledgable soul provides a binary for mac, hint, hint :-)
If you managed to compile "spaghettis" from source, than compiling Pd 
should be no big deal. Did you give it a try? The INSTALL.txt contains 
the necessary info.

Christof

On 29.05.2020 11:25, hans w. koch wrote:
> thanks, christof,
>
> that makes sense.
> a more general question: is that the plan for a transisiton period or will it stay that way for the foreseeable future?
>
> apart from the obvious profits for the playback of longer soundfiles and the ones specified in katjas research some time ago (http://www.katjaas.nl/doubleprecision/doubleprecision.html),
> i use double for simple math tasks involving really big numbers.
>
> so far i compiled nicolas danets “spaghettis” pd fork (https://github.com/Spaghettis/Spaghettis), but i guess its now time to try and compile pd myself.
> unless some kind and more knowledgable soul provides a binary for mac, hint, hint :-)
> (dan wilcox did one for pd50-2 some time ago)
>
> best
> hans
>
>> Am 29.05.2020 um 10:48 schrieb Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>:
>>
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>> it means that Pd can be compiled -DPD_FLOATSIZE=64, so it will use 64-bit doubles instead of 32-bit floats everywhere, and all built-in objects should still work as expected.
>>
>> This has advantages (better precision/stability for certain filters, large precise table indicies, etc.) and possible disadvantages (needs more memory, some code paths might be a bit slower).
>>
>> Currently, we only ship the good old single precision builds, but people can compile double precision builds from source for themselves to experiment with.
>>
>> Christof
>>
>> On 29.05.2020 08:58, hans w. koch wrote:
>>> excited about that release, thanks to all involved!
>>>
>>>> * maybe mention that Pd is now double precision ready?
>>> what does that exactly mean? is it in, but not enabled or is it a subset?
>>> ( certainly its not a marketing scam as these tv sets labeled “HD ready” :-)
>>>
>>> thanks for clarification,
>>>
>>> hans
>>
>>
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