Andy Farnell wrote:

I was thinking of trying 64studio as a new main Pd machine.

A few things are holding me back from upgrading;

1. The reported table/array problem, is that fixed now?

yes.

2. Extended - when you say there's no pd-extended, does this mean

that most externals can be compiled 64 bit but none are collected together so you have to do each one yourself?

basically correct. Pd itself does not have any problems any more with 64bit. there might still be a few externals that are incompatible with 64bit mode (that have to be ported, because they use low-level tricks), and more externals that still miss the "-fPIC" flag (this is rather trivial to solve when compiling)

3. Does the 64 bit version benefit from any computational accuracy

improvement, or is it just running as 32 bit?

both the type of numbers in messages (t_float) and signals (t_sample) are still single precision floating point. In Pd-0.41 the types t_float and t_sample are used almost everywhere (where applicable), i hope that i will have patches for pd-0.42 that will allow you to compile Pd with double-precision.

4. Is there now a Debian package for 64 bit Pd that I can apt-get?

Pd has been in debian/amd64 for some years now.

i don't know whether günther has backported all the 0.41 fixes for 64bit. personally i always have the debian-packages installed and never use them.

fgmasdr IOhannes

Thanks for any further clues.

Andy