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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, it's a syntactic shortcut, but one click init is also possible  
using sends.

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

Hmm, that sounds to me like a bug.  I don't see why these should  
behave differently in this respect.

>> 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.

Nice patch, that's a substantial difference.  I got 80 for sendsends  
and 150 for msgsends.

.hc

>
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