From 4d788c826b6e354f6aa29a047dcd2e93bb220c73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Jurish Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:31:47 +0000 Subject: + updated extended/Makefile to include new locale/ subdir svn path=/trunk/externals/moocow/; revision=10641 --- pdstring+wchar/README.pod | 68 ----------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 68 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 pdstring+wchar/README.pod (limited to 'pdstring+wchar/README.pod') 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 Emoocow@ling.uni-potsdam.deE -- cgit v1.2.1