[PD] Re: BlueTooth CUI : using [comport] or [hid]

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Jun 20 01:13:48 CEST 2006


On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> How is the [&] object ineffecient?

It can only be so for two reasons:

   1. Pd's messagesystem is interpreted.

   2. Pd has floats and no ints.

But unless you try processing 100000 bytes per second or so, [&] prolly 
isn't slow enough to worry.

> It would be easy enough to write something like [bit] for Pd based on 
> [&] which would make the patching easier.

extracting bits is already pretty easy. you don't even need to know powers 
of two. e.g. [bit 13] would be like [>> 13] then [& 1]. You could do it 
like [& 8192] then [!=], but you really don't have to.

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