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Cabbage and memory usage

#1

Rory, I was wondering how much memory a widget normally takes? I know that’s not a hard and fast rule, as different widgets have different needs.

I’m just wondering if I can reduce the number of widgets I’m creating (I do have a number of redundancies), will it have an impact on my program?

I was planning on doing this in the next revision, but if this might help with my issues, then I just might do this now, as I’m not sure how to troubleshoot my current problem.

I am also rethinking how to make the program more modular, and try using an external editor. I already use an external editor, but those thing I do with cabbage’s editor, seem to become unstable and I have to rewrite a chunk of code to get rid of a problem.

#2

A GUI widget itself doesn’t take up much memory. But having 1000s of them might cause spikes in your CPU.

To be honest, if I was writing code that contained 10s of thousands of lines like you are, I wouldn’t not be using the Cabbage text editor. I would probably use Visual Studio code or Atom, both of which have good Csound integration.

#3

Thanks, while not thousands of widgets, but we are talking about close to 50 duplicates that are not needed.

Also, I’ve used Atom, and since it supports Csound…