hi miller, hi list,
i'm currently thinking about working on the memory allocation functions of pd to make them realtime safe ...
miller: are you planing to work on that in the near future? if so, it wouldn't be useful to reinvent the wheel twice ... if not, i'd start to work on that ...
i thought about some kind of allocation function that allocates memory in the background and assignes pieces of this memory using getbytes() ... a helper thread could allocate memory from the os and always have a few mb as memory ... probably i would have to add a garbage collector and stuff like that, too, but it seems to be an approach that _could_ work and make memory allocation a lot faster ...
and i'd like to know, what other people think of this idea, maybe i'm on the wrong way ...
cheers... tim