Hi Hans,
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: I was well aware of the slowness of the Pd GUI on Mac OS X, but its news to me that its actually slower than older versions. That would be very good to test. Tigital did a bunch of work streamlining the Tk/Aqua stuff to use CoreGraphics, which should speed things up quite a bit. I am wondering what makes things go slower with newer versions.
I am still using the 0.37.1 PD-version(on osx.3.9) for the exact same reason that the newer versions of pd are super slow. Opening up my performance interface (using quite a few abstractions) and trying to push a toggle or bang is nearly impossible. No response at all.
As you, I am puzzled by the fact what changed in the newer versions which makes the pd-GUI slower than the older versions. I'm using the 0.37.1 version without X11 and i'm using the tcl/tk 8.4.9 (wish shell). I'm not a great fan of using X11, but if that would help figuring out what went different in the production of the newer pd-versions, than that would be worth trying.
Sara
One thing that tigital is proposing, which I think would be worth trying, is making a Fink/X11 version of Pd. This should get around the slowness of Tk/Aqua, but would mean that you need X11 to use that version of Pd.
.hc