[PD] symbolarray

[Chris McCormick]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:52:33PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> lsw hat gesagt: // lsw wrote:
> 
> > Looks pretty useful. Also a great structures example.
> 
> Btw.: To fill the symbolarray [list-enumerate] from [list]-abs is great.
> 
> [symbolarray] also is pretty fast if you have to lookup something in large
> lists. I tested it with an arraysize of 100,000,000 elements, which takes
> roughly 300 MB RAM according to my system monitor (with all elements except the
> last one empty).  Creating the array takes several seconds, but looking up the
> final element happens instantly afterwards.
> 
> The other Pd-vanilla ways I know to implement this are textfile-dumps with
> "rewind"+[until] or [select]-constructs or [list-idx], which all are unusable
> with arrays of these sizes.
> 
> And of course the patch can be modified to look up any kind of list whose
> structure is known.
> 
> Now we still need maps/hashes.

Maybe this is something close:
<http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-03/060712.html>

Best,

Chris.

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