dyn~ - was: Re: [PD] Pd and jack (again)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Thomas Grill wrote:
> > The PD/jMax external closest to that latter ideal is, of course, GridFlow.
> > But it's not like GridFlow can even get close to that ideal because there
> > are way too many classes/externals to rewrite, and it does not handle DSP
> > at all, etc.
> I thought over it for quite some time and i've come to the conclusion that
> using standard pd message and dsp objects is the way to go.

Oh well. You see, the GridFlow way has its advantages. By making patches
out of multidimensional array operators, an incredible amount of work can
be done with very little message-passing, and the supporting library
(GridFlow) can do some insane vectorizing of operations. For
high-bandwidth numeric computing, you shouldn't have zillions of objects
passing around zillions of messages... it would be over 100 times slower
(I tried)

So it really depends on the case. I am conscious there isn't a single best
way of doing things. The dyn~ object will have its niche too.

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