[PD] [PD-announce] Pd Convention - Data structures workshop: Taking your requests

[Jonathan Wilkes]

How well do these things scale without having a low level way to delete/copy scalars or insert/remove arbitrary array elements?

-Jonathan



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>From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>To: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
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>Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 4:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd Convention - Data structures workshop: Taking your requests
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>On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:59:49AM -0500, Charles Henry wrote:
>>> I'm mainly interested in using Pd for scientific and engineering
>>> research.  I have a mixed level of experience--I'm deep into the DSP
>>> routines, but I have no clue how data structures work.
>>> 
>>> About the only application I can think of right now is a "data
>>> logger"--recording info about a particular trial/experiment and its
>>> results.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to learn easy or more compact ways to accomplish things with
>>> data structures.
>>> 
>>> I will look forward to your workshop!  Thanks much!
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>> Data structures can be nice problem solvers in unexpected areas as well,
>> not only in visualizing/graphically editing data. For example, they are
>> used hidden away to implement a fast vanilla list sorting in the newest
>> [list-sort], or in the [m_symbolarray] object of the rj library to
>> mimick a [table] object that stores indexed symbols instead of floats.
>> A users of these objects never sees the data structures inside,
>> they don't even have a graphical representation but instead are just
>> used as what their name says: as data structures.
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>Wow, I didn't know all that was possible. It would be really nice to have a 'data structures' library that implemented all sorts of standard data structures like hashs, dictionaries, etc.  An array of symbols is a good start.  I wonder how many others are possible.
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