[PD-dev] object creation bug?

Miller Puckette mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Sat Aug 3 22:16:07 CEST 2002


sure, but there's no flexibility lost; you can have the _message_ put the
args in any order; it's just that they show up ints first in the C code.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:48:34PM +0200, Thomas Grill wrote:
> Hi Miller,
> 
> > well, it's intentional:  you get all the pointer&integer arguments, THEN
> > all the flost arguments.  It's easier to implement message-passing
> > efficiently this way.  (I should have written this down somewhere!)
> 
> even if it's intentional, i dont like it very much.
> I find it better to sacrifice two or three cpu cycles for more flexibility.
> Of course, one can do it with gimme arguments, but it's for sure even slower
> then.....
> The reason why i stumbled across this issue is that it works in Max/MSP.
> 
> greetings,
> Thomas
> 




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