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

Thomas Grill t.grill at gmx.net
Sun Feb 2 09:25:16 CET 2003


> 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)

I don't see the point. dyn~ does nothing else than employing the standard
way of pd messaging and dsp processing.
Thus, one can use all standard objects and even the highly praised Gridflow
ones.

> 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.

So be it.

greetings,
Thomas





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