[PD] Vanilla [list-s2l] prototype

[Andy Farnell]

SplitTheAtoms = 16ms
VanillaRulz = 27ms
Teddy = 23ms
1234.... = 140ms
PdIsGreat = 30ms

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:29:35 -0500
Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's another update to the [list-s2l] prototype that uses a
> character table to try to maximize the chance of finding matching
> characters early -- on my machines it's cut some of the previous
> [realtime] measurements by about 80% depending on the message (on my
> macbook it takes 100 MS to break a symbol with all common ascii
> characters into its characters) -- but of course it's nowhere near as
> quick as the zexy object.
> 
> I think it's close to usable, especially for short symbols.  Anyone
> wanna try it out?
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK, here's a [list-s2l] with delimiting.  This wasn't easy.  =o)
> > Included are all the abstractions needed --
> >
> > [symbollength] calculates the length of a symbol.
> >
> > [list-l2f], as yet undocumented, attempts to build a float from an
> > incoming stream of numbers and symbols -- works pretty well.
> >
> > I tried to get as close as possible to the behavior of zexy [s2l] and
> > [list-l2s] ...
> >
> > It's probably not fast enough to use in practice, but it would be
> > worth testing with small symbols to find out
> >
> > If you could test it, I could work out the bugs.  I'd take
> > suggestions, of course.
> >
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> Attached is a prototype for a vanilla + list-abs [list-s2l].  I have
> >> leaned on the side of completeness and error reduction rather than
> >> efficiency -- there are many many ways to make this more efficient.
> >> Also, it doesn't handle delimiters yet (right now it breaks a symbol
> >> into its constituent characters, casting float symbols back to float),
> >> but I think I could figure out how to do it.
> >>
> >> Neither this nor [list-l2s] handles % appropriately...
> >>
> >> I'd appreciate any feedback.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >
>