On Oct 31, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
First off, Tcl/Tk 8.5 looks to have a lot of performance
improvements, especially on Mac OS X, as it shifts from Carbon/ QuickDraw to Cocoa/CoreGraphics.I said that before. I'm claiming that Tcl/Tk 8.5 is too slow. Tcl/ Tk 8.4 is even slower, mostly for OSX, but also, I suspect that the
use of TrueType fonts takes more juice in general, but I haven't
measured yet.Since we are talking about Tk now, I was wondering whether it
would be possible to use Tcl/Tk's C interface in some objects in
order to make things happen more efficiently.This is not where the bottleneck is.
I thought the network socket was the bottleneck. The example I am
thinking of is getting the mouse pointer coords from Tk. That
generates a lot of network traffic, it would be nice this happened in
the pd process instead. Obviously, using the C interface to draw to
the screen wouldn't be useful.
.hc
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