----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
> To: Dan Wilcox <[email protected]>
> Cc: PD List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] sending image from of / libpd
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Dan Wilcox wrote:
>
>> I was talking about sending a large list through libpd which, I assume, is
> doing some sort of copying of floats as it translates from the libpd api to
> the
> internal pd api.
>
> Oh, yeah... if you use z_libpd.h, it copies the floats, whereas with m_pd.h,
> you
> have the option to have your data as atoms in the first place, so that they
> don't have to be copied.
>
>> Besides, isn't there some sort of limit on the length of lists or does
> libpd handle this for you?
>
> With z_libpd.h, you have an artificial limit of 32 atoms per message
I must be misunderstanding what you've written, because it would break
trivial patches:
[osc~ 440]
|
| [bang(
|/
[print~]
> whereas
> with m_pd.h, there's no formal limit ; in practice the OS will limit you to
> something like 1000000 atoms on the stack at once, for example. On 32-bit
> Linux,
> the limit can be as high as 8000000 atoms (64 megs) but I don't remember
> what the default limits are.
>
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