CPU usage of data structures [was: Re: [PD] Re: new pmpd developer]

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Nicolas Montgermont hat gesagt: // Nicolas Montgermont wrote:
> You point out a useless CPU charge of my patch! Thanks to you I can add 
> mass and link to my simple model, but the computation remains difficult 
> for a structure which is designed to replace a fader. The only way seems 
> to have a template containing all the masses positions and to have one 
> global set for all of them, but the number of masses won't be easily 
> editable...
> 
> That allowed me to discover something about displaying datastructure. 
> The X-offset present at the starting point of the link depends of the 
> number of link present here, I explain :
> The first link added to a mass got good position (links 0, 1, 2 of the 
> test patch) , the second one and every others (3,4) linked to him got a 
> 1/2 pixels addition on their x-display, and so on. So link added last 
> got a x move of ~7 pixels! I've disabled your x addition of 5 pix to see 
> that better.

Interesting problem, indeed. I will need to take a deeper look at
this. Anyway I now tried another thing which both made another
(although only a small) speedup as well as fix the display: I change
the links from being an array inside the model to being single data
structure object. This makes the [traverse X, next( messages hit the
wrong object for the masses, so I changed how they gat their pointers,
too. My changes are in [pd structure] and in mass-setter/link-setter.
You will probably spot them easily, I added comments. 

Ciao
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