Nice work Dan! > On 26 Nov 2019, at 00:20, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > > Howdy all, > > Pd's start time on macOS has always felt a bit *slow*. Recently, someone on > the pd-list noticed starting Pd with -noprefs helps a great deal. > > I did some digging and the core basically performs a system call to the > "defaults" command for *each* key/value in s_file.c, including a stat() check > if the preferences file exists. That's a good amount of filesystem IO and > probably explains why it takes *3-4 seconds* on my machine. > > For a proposed update to fix this, I just got some code working which reads > the plist into a dictionary object directly using the macOS CoreFoundation > framework (all C). Reading keys and values is then much faster and Pd starts > up almost instantaneously now. Next step would be to updating preference > saving as well. > > I hope to finalize this and put it up as a PR in a week or two for testing. > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
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