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

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote:

> when I look through miller's tutorial patches, I often find ";-messages" 
> instead of a send object like:
> [;detune $1(
> vs
> [s detune]
> I wonder why, is there a significant difference? 

I cannot speak for Miller, but one difference with message-senders is,
that you send to various receivers in one go: 

[; detune 0.2; freq 440; vol 80; ...(

which sometimes is handy for initializing many things with one click
and in a central place.

Also msg-bangs will warn, if there is no receiver available.
send-sends just send and ignore it, if they send to nothing.

> is one more efficient then the other 

send-sends are much more effective than msg-sends, I suppose mostly
because of dollar-variable replacements. See attached benchmark-patch.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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