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-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>