I dare say PD needs to ditch tcl/tk! SDL could be a good idea. Daniel
--- On Mon, 1/19/09, Kyle Klipowicz <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kyle Klipowicz <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] max for live > To: "hard off" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 1:37 PM > That's the elephant in the room isn't it? > > Live is most valuable to me because it is very cpu-friendly > considering the > amount of tasks being done at once in such a rich visual > environment. Pd on > the other hand is very slow...the equivalent of maybe 2 or > 3 live devices > will shoot my cpu up to 75% easily. > > Of course, this is because Live devices are optimized in > C++. Also, the GUI > is rendered by graphing bitmap primitives onto the > screen...I'm pretty sure > that Pd does something different/more cpu intensive using > tcl/tk. > > I'm all for the effort though! I just think that Pd > will need some major > face lifts to get it to the usability that Live offers. > > ~Kyle > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:57 AM, hard off > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > would widgets and whatnots be subject to the same > clunky slowness of other > > pd gui objects? or is this something that might be > improved too? > > > > > > -- > ----- > ------------ > ---- ----- > ---- -------- - ------ > http://perhapsidid.wordpress.com > http://myspace.com/kyleklipowicz > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
