[PD] difference send and using msg with ";"

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Aug 16 19:22:44 CEST 2007


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, marius schebella wrote:

> [;detune $1(
> vs
> [s detune]
> I wonder why, is there a significant difference?

It used to be that ";" was the only one to allow a variable destination 
(more so than just the $1 of an abstraction...) whereas [s] was the only 
one to send messages of variable size. now in 0.40 both can be done at the 
same time using [s]. If using Johannes' $* feature, you'd also be able to 
do both in a messagebox.

> is one more efficient then the other (if yes, I always thought send is 
> more efficient..?).

i'd say that it depends on the situation, but if you can't measure the 
difference, then it does not matter. You could use [realtime] and [until] 
with a big enough number of repetitions if you want to benchmark it. If 
you want to measure just the messagebox and not measure the [until] that 
you have to use with it, then you will have to subtract the time of an 
[until] alone. If you try to do it only with one message without [until], 
your result will be really imprecise.

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