Which brings me to the question: is there any plan of bringing garbage-collected strings to PD ?
hmm, not that I know of. What would be the difference between symbols and strings ?
The difference would be that non-resident strings don't clutter up the symbol space. Once in a while i come across applications that produce textual output (e.g. in video applications deailing with text or with gui stuff). In PD there is no way to avoid that these string results don't get fed into the symbol table and consequently slow down symbol lookup! until PD is restarted. I'd really appreciate the advent of garbage-collected strings in PD.
good gain, Thomas