patrick wrote: > talking about it on #dataflow, patko and claudiusmaximus agree on using > udp. i will use mrpeach/net external for this. >
as i haven't followed the discussion on IRC, i would be interested in how come? afaics, using mrpeach/net will reduce the network bandwidth eventually at the cost of CPU-power. since you seem to be on a super-local network (communicating via the loopback device on a "non-networked" machine) , the bandwidth shouldn't really be an issue (as you re not sending gigabytes of data in a few ms). for very simple data-type (e.g. just sending single bytes), the mrpeach/net objects should perform better than [netsend], but when sending more complex data (e.g. floats) this need not be the case. i haven't done any benchmarking at all; i just assume that converting floats to bytes in pd-vanilla is rather complicated (if doable with "commensurable" effort) obviously you can use more helper externals e.g. mrpeach/osc to do the conversion for you in a more efficient way. note that i personally use mrpeach/net + mrpeach/osc quite a lot; but you should ask yourself (or the list;-) which is what you originally did) what are the benefits and what are the drawbacks of using externals? all in all: what do you think you will gain from using an external rather than a built-in for communicating data? fmdasdr IOhannes _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list