[PD] is there a [round]?

Tim Blechmann TimBlechmann at gmx.net
Wed Oct 12 19:48:20 CEST 2005


> > there are 3 different bangs;
> > |bng|: gui bang ... very slow, since it sends data over the gui
> > connection 
> > 
> > |bang(: the good old bang ... this is slow, too, since the string
> > "bang" is converted to a bang message each time, you use it ...
> > 
> > |bang|: the fastest conversion ... best choice ...
> 
> Just to complete this: There also is [t b]. How would that fit into
> the equation? Is it the same as [bang]?

not exactly ... in my view of the _language_ pd these three are bang
objects.
|t b| is a |trigger| object with the argument "bang". although it
shouldn't be much slower than |bang|, i think it introduces some
overhead (i haven't checked the source, though)

t

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