[PD] netsend/netreceive questions ...

[oliver]

hi, a more general question about internal network communication:

which method would you say is the "best" way to communicate between PD 
and other applications like MAX, GEM, VVVV in terms of speed and 
reliability ?

i'm asking for a huge project that should be able to send/receive 
time-critical messages (for video-synching) AND also big lists of 
filenames etc. across applications.

maybe it's better to use [OSC] for the latter and [netsend] for single 
floats (f.e. to send a time-synch message) ?

is it better to open more than one port (or is it a socket ?) for this 
purpose or will that make things worse ?

should i use vanilla's [netsend] or are there other externals better 
suited for this task ?

what are your experiences in this regard ?


thanks a lot !

oliver