[PD] array copy speed test

Tim Blechmann TimBlechmann at gmx.net
Mon Jul 31 08:01:04 CEST 2006


hi hans,

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:23 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> So I did a little speed test between C and Pd for doing an array-to- 
> array copying.  Pd didn't fair so well.  Can anyone thing of a better  
> algorithm for copying in Pd?

well, as pd is a purely interpreted language, i doubt that you can
improve it without writing a compiler for pd patches ... and even
then ... if you'll have overhead for stack management and message
handling ...
a pure c or even simd implementation will always be way faster ...

cheers ... tim

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