On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: > >> when I look through miller's tutorial patches, I often find ";- >> messages" >> instead of a send object like: >> [;detune $1( >> vs >> [s detune] >> I wonder why, is there a significant difference? > > I cannot speak for Miller, but one difference with message-senders is, > that you send to various receivers in one go: > > [; detune 0.2; freq 440; vol 80; ...( > > which sometimes is handy for initializing many things with one click > and in a central place.
Yeah, it's a syntactic shortcut, but one click init is also possible using sends. > Also msg-bangs will warn, if there is no receiver available. > send-sends just send and ignore it, if they send to nothing. Hmm, that sounds to me like a bug. I don't see why these should behave differently in this respect. >> is one more efficient then the other > > send-sends are much more effective than msg-sends, I suppose mostly > because of dollar-variable replacements. See attached benchmark-patch. Nice patch, that's a substantial difference. I got 80 for sendsends and 150 for msgsends. .hc > > Ciao > -- > Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ > <benchmark-sends.pd> > <sendsend.pd> > <msgsend.pd> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic. It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war on terrorism. - retired U.S. Army general, William Odom _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
