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

[hans w. koch]

thanks for nudging my laziness…i´ll give it a spin :-)

hans

> Am 29.05.2020 um 11:31 schrieb Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>:
> 
>> 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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