Re: [PD-dev] CVS pd linux build updated and inventory of changes

Hallo, Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote:

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.

Thanks for this explanaition. This sounds bad.

I'd really appreciate the advent of garbage-collected strings in PD.

I think, that escaping then should be done right, which means, that we also need a way to escape limiters. I don't know if the current hack allows " inside a string.

ciao