[PD] suggestion... or question

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> >>however, i daresay that a lot of patches as you describe would involve
> >>to only a copy'n'paste of your 512 sliders and 512 instances of logic.
> >>(matju, that was for you)
> > I'm listening, but what are you trying to say?
> i hoped you were commenting on "512 instances of logic"

Well... if it's exactly 512 you can patch that in logarithmic time using a
sequence of abstractions that instantiates each preceding abstraction
twice, yielding 2^n copies of the original abstraction. The technique may
also be trivially expanded to any prime power by a similar
divide-and-conquer technique. ;-)

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