[PD] suggestion... or question

[Krzysztof Czaja]

Federico wrote:
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> more generally i would say: repetition of objects, groups, or instances, 
> is a common pattern in pd. and there are certain ways to do it (select, 
> route, multiple inlets, and so on), but all of them require a lot of 
> patching (proportional to the number of instances you want).
> why souldn't exists an object which does this for you?

it is possible to make crippled substitutes like nqpoly or
rabin/clone, but it is not possible to introduce proper
multi-abstractions without a major redesign of Pd internals.

The main obstacle is that Pd maintains only a single monolithic
dsp graph.  Breaking that would not be easy now: there are
optimizing hacks in dsp graph handling, plus various patches in
the code for features like resampling, etc.  These are all great,
but they make the implementation quite complex, and nobody seems
to dare touching it.

k