Richard,
Your guess about memory just might be a good one.
I had to quit using Constellation when building ButtonGadget2 because
it was clear there were memory errors involved after compositing,
which also used imagedata and alphadata calls quite a lot. After a few
composites with Constellation
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote:
12:52:22 -0700
I'm wondering if it isn't script execution at all, but perhaps memory.
I can't think of any way your script could be affected by the mere
existence of other scripts, since your main handler is pretty well
self-contained (so send or
Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
I tested these two scripts in versions 2.6.6 and 2.7.4 of Metacard and
the corresponding engine versions of Rev 2.6.1 and 2.7.4, both as stacks
and as standalones. The stacks were always launched from the same folder.
I again used a larger image of 1600 X 1200 which was
I still think it could be some sort of memory management error inside
the engine. Not necessarily a memory leak (which would show up inside
Richard's test), but other problem. Else, why would Constellation work
for a little bit, then quit working?
In anycase, great work Wilhelm!
best,
Chipp
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Confirmed in the IDEs -- 5740ms/avg in MC, 6830ms/avg in Rev (I have a
1GHz PB G4).
I haven't built standalones, though, which would be good to test.
In the meantime I did further tests and built standalones for MC 2.6.5,
2.73, 2.74 and Rev 2.6.1, 2.73, 2.74. I
Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
In the meantime I did further tests and built standalones for MC 2.6.5,
2.73, 2.74 and Rev 2.6.1, 2.73, 2.74. I tested 3 more scripts and also
tested all scripts with a much larger image of 1600 X 1200.
As before, no significant differences between stacks and standalones in
