[PD] Licensing issues (was rjdj is gone, robotcowboy is coming ...)

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Licensing issues (was rjdj is gone, robotcowboy is coming ...)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:48:23PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  [list of the table names(
>>  |
>>  |    [r midi_note_number]
>>  |   /
>>  |  [set $1(
>>  | /
>>  [ (
>>  |
>> 
>>  If the essence of "seeing the light" regarding Pd Vanilla is that 
> it's more
>>  efficient to use what's already there to read/write/share patches, I 
> don't
>>  see why you'd prefer the abstraction to such a straightforward idiom to
>>  solve your task.
> 
> For m_symbolarray the main reason was speed and as a side-effect allowing
> "holes" in the array. Accessing an array (even one in a data 
> structure) is a
> lot faster than sending around a long list every time a lookup is needed.
> m_symbolarray made a patch run nicely on an iPhone that was totally
> overloading the device before. 

Oops, my ascii art above should have [set, adddollar $1( in it.

How many table names total were there in the patch that was overloading
the device?

-Jonathan

> 
> Of course often you just can get away with the usual approach that you outlined
> above, and please do so, if you don't run into problems.
> 
> But if a) the number of names (i.e. the list length) gets large or b) you have
> to activate this idiom many, many times, you can hit a wall. And it's quite
> easy to make a) and b) with sample players if you play polyphonic music with
> many instruments in it.  Here m_symbolarray is one way out.
> 
> Ciao
> -- 
> Frank Barknecht                                     _ ______footils.org__
>