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Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:
As I see it, Pd is a virtual machine and the patch is the program that runs on that virtual machine. So if your patch is buggy (i.e. triggers an infinite loop), the virtual machine can hang, that's ok, it's the patcher's fault, but the virtual machine is virtual and should only "virtually" hang. Pd, which simulates the virtual machine, is also an application, and the patch is its input: and no matter the input, the application as such shouldn't hang.
so how do you determine whether the loop is an infinite one? and who will pay the numerous custodians in the galleries needed to click on "yes, i really want this loop?".
that's not to say, that it would be nice to be able to halt the virtual machine without quitting Pd. it would also be nice to have a step-debug mode...
fadr IOhannes