from what i am seeing so far, those 0.48 and modified 0.47 builds look exactly the same as far as font and object size goes. They both seem ok. 

i dunno why it seems there is an extra space to the right of objects....i have been using pd exclusively on desktop for the past few years, so maybe that's a part of it.  But maybe it's a different font or something, and that's why there is space to the right sometimes?  

if i just make a basic [*~ 1] or something like that, i don't seem to get any space, but larger objects like [pack f f f s f f f] or something like that, always come with one character of space to the right, it seems