I don't know if this is relevant, but I thought that since it came up I would mention that you can get the size of an array with expr:
[symbol arrayname( | [expr size("$s1")] should do it. Matt > > My little participation :) > A small modification of [list-tabdump] is 40% faster than the original > (avoiding to send everytime the new list from [list append] in [list]). > ++ > > Jack > > > > Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010 ? 13:53 +0100, Roman Haefeli a ?crit : >> Am 21.01.10 09:57 schrieb "William Brent" unter <william.br...@gmail.com>: >> >> > But is there something in Pd-ext that does this? There must be, >> > right? An external is waaaaaaaay faster for long arrays. >> >> An external will always be faster. However, the patching method still can be >> optimized a lot. [list-tabdump] copies the same data back and forth and the >> number-of-elemts/cputime ratio is not linear, but something like >> 'exponential' (please someone put here the correct term). Attached is a >> benchmark patch, that compares [tabdump], [list-tabdump] and a patched >> vanilla version, that has a linear ratio, which makes it a lot faster than >> [list-tabdump], especially with big arrays (though it is still 10 times >> slower than [tabdump]). >> >> Roman >> > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list