----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; Ivica Ico Bukvic <i...@vt.edu>;
> "pd-list@iem.at List" <pd-list@iem.at>
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] GUI and DSP
>
> Le 2012-02-10 à 20:09:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
>
>> For me the create-delete method uses more CPU but both are pretty
> intensive. Any Qt devs out there? Or gtk'ers? Maybe a JUCEr? Would those
> toolkits be able to utilize the GPU? Those would be nice to compare, too.
>
> In the end, switching toolkits wouldn't be a bad idea, but it's not the
> only solution. Some things inside of tk could be improved. Modifying tk can
> be
> scary, more so if we have to think seriously about bundling alpha versions of
> tk
> 8.7 together with pd-extended, but the alternative is to rewrite large
> amounts
> of code (everything using sys_gui or implicitly referring to Tcl), which is
> error-prone, hard to test, and too many changes in one chunk.
>
> So, it's not very clear to me which one is best.
>
> I had tried making some changes to Tk 8.5, and it seemed somewhat promising.
> I
> was getting large speedups for some cases, and large slowdowns for some other
> cases. With more work, the latter could have been eliminated. It would
> benefit
> most other uses of Tk Canvas in other apps as well, so it could be integrated
> to
> Tk itself.
Do you still have any of those changes you made to Tk? If so, how do they
compare
to unpatched Tk when running Hans' array-demo?
-Jonathan
>
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