[PD] optimizing big patches

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Ludwig Maes wrote:

> I always felt message passing was unnecessarily expensive but I didnt 
> realise message passing was that expensive! I seriously think it would 
> be good to have a pd front end for gcc, a few of us should take the time 
> to learn GIMPLE and implement a "compile" menu item to compile 
> patches/subpatches.

There are a lot of possible ways to compile patches without having to deal 
with machine code generation and use. I'm sure you can triple the speed of 
a lot of patches in this manner, and I wouldn't be surprised to get 
tenfold improvements in some cases.

OTOH, another way to deal with a slow interpreter, is to pass fewer, 
bigger messages, to objects that do more work at once. This is much of the 
original idea for creating GridFlow.

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