[PD] feature request for [list]

[Chris McCormick]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:50:02AM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> I'm thinking of adding "parallelize" and "serialize" options to list
> that (I think) would include the function of "drip"... and I think I
> should add "list length" too.

So parallelize and serialize would be inverses of eachother? Sounds
good. I think that these three constitute the minimal set of builtins
required to speed up what currently has to be done using [until].

Best rgds,

Chris.

> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:01:29PM +0200, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:14:46 +0200
> > > From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [PD] feature request for [list]
> > > 
> > > Hallo,
> > > Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So basically I'd like to see a [list length] and an [s2l].
> > > 
> > > You can do "list length" with a simple counter and "list split"
> > > already. It's called [list-len] in [list]-abs.  However unfolding a
> > > list using [until] and [list split] is very slow.  I did benchmarks
> > > comparing it to [drip] and it takes ages longer. As a "drip" operation
> > > is used so often - Matju once compared it to the "for"-loop of other
> > > languages - it is important that "drip" is fast, and not only fast,
> > > but very fast.  I'd much prefer to have a fast unfolding operation
> > > over getting "list length". 
> > 
> > Yes, good point.
> > 
> > > And negative indices are just very convenient, and the object is
> > > already in.
> > > 
> > > I don't think that [s2l] should become part of [list]. To me
> > > it is a typical string operation, like Perl's split and string.split()
> > > in Python. 
> > 
> > Agreed. If someone made patches against Miller's Pd and put it in SF
> > patch tracker would these probably make it in?
> > 
> > Chris.
> > 
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