[PD] array copy speed test
Tim Blechmann
TimBlechmann at gmx.net
Mon Jul 31 08:01:04 CEST 2006
hi hans,
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:23 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> So I did a little speed test between C and Pd for doing an array-to-
> array copying. Pd didn't fair so well. Can anyone thing of a better
> algorithm for copying in Pd?
well, as pd is a purely interpreted language, i doubt that you can
improve it without writing a compiler for pd patches ... and even
then ... if you'll have overhead for stack management and message
handling ...
a pure c or even simd implementation will always be way faster ...
cheers ... tim
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