[PD] get the values of an array as a list

[Matt Barber]

I don't know if this is relevant, but I thought that since it came up
I would mention that you can get the size of an array with expr:

[symbol arrayname(
 |
[expr size("$s1")]

should do it.


Matt

>
> My little participation :)
> A small modification of [list-tabdump] is 40% faster than the original
> (avoiding to send everytime the new list from [list append] in [list]).
> ++
>
> Jack
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> Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 ? 13:53 +0100, Roman Haefeli a ?crit :
>> Am 21.01.10 09:57 schrieb "William Brent" unter <william.brent at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > But is there something in Pd-ext that does this?  There must be,
>> > right?  An external is waaaaaaaay faster for long arrays.
>>
>> An external will always be faster. However, the patching method still can be
>> optimized a lot. [list-tabdump] copies the same data back and forth and the
>> number-of-elemts/cputime ratio is not linear, but something like
>> 'exponential' (please someone put here the correct term). Attached is a
>> benchmark patch, that compares [tabdump], [list-tabdump] and a patched
>> vanilla version, that has a linear ratio, which makes it a lot faster than
>> [list-tabdump], especially with big arrays (though it is still 10 times
>> slower than [tabdump]).
>>
>> Roman
>>

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