I suppose this is an aside, but I've noticed that the larger the buffer,
the less likely that an error will get ported to the display. When the
the buffer is small, the display shows the full error message, at about
500, the helpful error messages are often truncated. Additionally, when
the orc is compiled, the status on the instr is often spliced into the
version/copyright status.

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> On a PowerComputing PowerTower 180e (MacOs 7.5.5, Mills Csound PPC
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> I always knew messages off was faster, just never thought it could be
> this much faster: Without any visual indication I always thought the
> process had died. There are faster PPCs out there now; this 180e (the e

A good compromise is to set the message buffer to a large value. This
allows you to still see the messages without the program doing a lot
of I/O. The difference suprised us too.

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