Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
So I just had a thought, perhaps its not an original one. I was thinking that if the core Pd objects were well optimized, using SIMD and all that good stuff, then the objects I write in Pd might actually be comparable in speed to the objects I write in plain C (I'm no assembly programmer).
that is largely dependent to what you are doing - there can still be enormous differences, with or without SIMD.
So on that topic, how hard would it be to make patches for the SIMD stuff that would apply to MSP's sources?
now that quite some time has passed it's a lot of work. And i don't see the actual merits since Miller has stated a few times that he doesn't want to incorporate them.
It's no _real_ problem, because within 5-10 years autovectorization functionalities in all major compilers will take that into account.
best greetings, Thomas