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| author | Bryan Jurish <mukau@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-01-25 22:31:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Bryan Jurish <mukau@users.sourceforge.net> | 2009-01-25 22:31:47 +0000 |
| commit | 4d788c826b6e354f6aa29a047dcd2e93bb220c73 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d13ab1ddb9b10656ded305c1d43e4cbae038965 /pdstring+wchar/README.pod | |
| parent | 9f6510850e3782a22b0ac282161f5e1e7413f3f2 (diff) | |
+ updated extended/Makefile to include new locale/ subdir
svn path=/trunk/externals/moocow/; revision=10641
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diff --git a/pdstring+wchar/README.pod b/pdstring+wchar/README.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 0f8d0bf..0000000 --- a/pdstring+wchar/README.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,68 +0,0 @@ -=pod - -README for pd external package 'pdstring' - -Last updated for pdstring v0.06 - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -The 'pdstring' package contains objects for converting to and -from (ASCII)-strings, represented as lists of floats. - -=head1 INSTALLATION - -Issue the following commands to the shell: - - cd PACKAGE-XX.YY (or wherever you extracted the distribution) - ./configure - make - make install - -=head1 BUILD OPTIONS - -The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others: - -=over 4 - -=item * --help - -Output a brief usage summary of the 'configure' script, -including a list of supported options and influential -environment variables. - -=item * --enable-debug , --disable-debug - -Whether to enable verbose debugging messages. -Default=no. - -=back - -=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - -PD by Miller Puckette and others. - -Ideas, black magic, and other nuggets of information drawn -from code by Guenter Geiger, Larry Troxler, and iohannes m zmoelnig. - -=head1 KNOWN BUGS - -=head2 Memory Usage - -Encoding each byte of a string as its own float is shamefully -wasteful: it uses only 1 byte out of at least 3 which could be -losslessly used given ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985 floats, not to -mention the remaining byte(s) (usually 1) of the float itself -or the (usually 4) bytes used for the a_type flag. -Unfortunately, Pd trims some floating point -precision in message boxes and in float atoms, so a truly -lossless float encoding for Pd would only be possible using -2 bytes per float (wasting 1/2 the space of the float itself), -and (to me), the memory saving such an encoding would provide -is just not worth the lack of transparency and additional -workload it would involve (but contact me if you want the code -anyways). - - -=head1 AUTHOR - -Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE<gt> |