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- README for pd external package 'pdstring'
-
- Last updated for pdstring v0.06
-
-DESCRIPTION
- The 'pdstring' package contains objects for converting to and from
- (ASCII)-strings, represented as lists of floats.
-
-INSTALLATION
- Issue the following commands to the shell:
-
- cd PACKAGE-XX.YY (or wherever you extracted the distribution)
- ./configure
- make
- make install
-
-BUILD OPTIONS
- The 'configure' script supports the following options, among others:
-
- * --help
- Output a brief usage summary of the 'configure' script, including a
- list of supported options and influential environment variables.
-
- * --enable-debug , --disable-debug
- Whether to enable verbose debugging messages. Default=no.
-
-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.
-
-KNOWN BUGS
- 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).
-
-AUTHOR
- Bryan Jurish <moocow@ling.uni-potsdam.de>
-