few months ago I was writing about some issues sending big sysex to Pd. Miller suggested the following
If you don't mind recompiling Pd, you can control the MIDI queue size
> by editing this line in s_midi.c:
>
> #define MIDIQSIZE 1024
>
> I think it has to be a power of 2. You could make it 0x100000, for instance
> (a million-ish).
>
> To easily recompile Pd on a Mac, install the developer package (compiler
> chain which I think is now called Xcode), open a shell, Cd to
> Pd-x.app/Contents/Resources/src, edit s_midi.c, and type "make".
>
I tried recompiling both on Linux (Ubuntu Studio 16.04) and MacOS (Sierra) but unfortunately without any success. I mean, I've been able to recompile it, but the issue's still there. moreover I couldn't find s_midi.c in
Pd-x.app/Contents/Resources/src
so I had to use the source code.
basically I'm sending (relatively) big sysex to Pd as fast as possible and I noticed Pd drops most of them. I'm collecting few hundreds byte on top of thousands.