IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2020-10-01 09:22, hans w. koch wrote:
but be aware of the risks of invoking makefilname all too often.
note that if you use dollsyms (as in
[$1$2() you are filling up the symbol table just as well.
i was just about to ask, if the attached modified patch would avoid that problem, but you replied already.
could you please clarify the used term "invoke" a bit ? i guess the number of [makefilename] objects isn't the problem, but how much/often its conversion mechanism is used, right ?
does that mean that everytime a number->symbol conversion happens (regardless how it is done) the symboltable is filled and will eventually slow down or crash PD ?
so, as a live example: writing number values to GUI labels dynamically is a potentially dangerous thing ? what's the threshold there ?
or is there any way to clear the symboltable ?
sorry for my noob questions ... just a little concerned right now as i use this feature quite often ...
thanks for any insight !
best
oliver