2012/4/9 IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at:
A non-decimal ASCII format instead, would make existing patches unreadable.
right; i think this is also the reason why Pd doesn't do any binary storage/transmission: it makes debugging so easy if you can actually understand what is going on without an assembler book besides the keyboard.
I mean to say that switching to any format other than decimal ASCII would make it impossible for Pd to interpret patch files using the current format.
the major drawback i see right now is, that raising the number of bytes used to transmit a single number will make table updates even more costy than they already are.
Large tables are mostly stored in an audio format, rather than text. But indeed, saving and loading large tables as text is already time-consuming with the current format. Text is also used by the [pd] object to transmit numbers / signals. And how about sending over UDP or TCP?
Katja