[PD] [PD-announce] many - a library for managing many instances

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi Hans,

these look pretty cool and very useful. The rj library has two
polypoly-like objects as well: [u_makepoly] and [u_robinpoly] (of course
the latter don't require any externals or modifications to vanilla Pd).

I have found in some benchmarks, that the  [inlet]---[route 0 1 2 3 ...]
technique can become quite slow for larger numbers of instances, so I
have replaced it in the rj-polys with the much faster technique if
dynamically assigned renamed [send]s. I have attached the patches so you
see what I mean. It really makes a difference on slow hardware like
iPod or Android phones.

Ciao
-- 
Frank

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:49:49PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> I finally got off my duff and put together this library I've been
> thinking about for years.  After making my own nqpoly5, nqpoly6,
> nqpoly7, runmany, voicepoly, etc.  I've tried to bundle all these
> techniques into a common library.  Since this library is all about
> managing many instances of a Pd patch, I'm calling it 'many'.
> 
> http://puredata.info/community/projects/software/many
> 
> Objects in the 'many' lib are based on code from Steven Pickles'
> (aka pix) nqpoly4 and Frank Barknecht's polypoly.  Thanks to pix's
> nqpoly4 because that was the real groundbreaking work that proved
> that a useful and reliable instance-managing object could be
> programmed in Pd.  Frank then did the work to make it maintainable
> and hackable.
> 
> .hc
> 
> 
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