<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">How well do these things scale without having a low level way to delete/copy scalars or insert/remove arbitrary array elements?<br><br>-Jonathan<br><br><div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Frank Barknecht <fbar@footils.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> pd-list@iem.at<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 2, 2011 4:23 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd Convention - Data structures workshop: Taking your requests<br></font><br><br>On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:<br><br>> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:59:49AM -0500, Charles Henry wrote:<br>>> I'm mainly interested in using Pd for scientific and engineering<br>>> research. I have a mixed level of experience--I'm deep into the DSP<br>>> routines, but I have no clue how data structures work.<br>>> <br>>> About the only application I can think of right now is a "data<br>>> logger"--recording info about a particular trial/experiment and its<br>>> results.<br>>> <br>>> I'd like to learn easy or more compact ways to accomplish things with<br>>> data structures.<br>>> <br>>> I will look forward to your workshop! Thanks much!<br>> <br>> Data structures can be nice problem solvers in
unexpected areas as well,<br>> not only in visualizing/graphically editing data. For example, they are<br>> used hidden away to implement a fast vanilla list sorting in the newest<br>> [list-sort], or in the [m_symbolarray] object of the rj library to<br>> mimick a [table] object that stores indexed symbols instead of floats.<br>> A users of these objects never sees the data structures inside,<br>> they don't even have a graphical representation but instead are just<br>> used as what their name says: as data structures.<br><br>Wow, I didn't know all that was possible. It would be really nice to have a 'data structures' library that implemented all sorts of standard data structures like hashs, dictionaries, etc. An array of symbols is a good start. I wonder how many others are possible.<br><br>.hc<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>
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