Hallo, lsw hat gesagt: // lsw wrote:
Looks pretty useful. Also a great structures example.
Btw.: To fill the symbolarray [list-enumerate] from [list]-abs is great.
[symbolarray] also is pretty fast if you have to lookup something in large lists. I tested it with an arraysize of 100,000,000 elements, which takes roughly 300 MB RAM according to my system monitor (with all elements except the last one empty). Creating the array takes several seconds, but looking up the final element happens instantly afterwards.
The other Pd-vanilla ways I know to implement this are textfile-dumps with "rewind"+[until] or [select]-constructs or [list-idx], which all are unusable with arrays of these sizes.
And of course the patch can be modified to look up any kind of list whose structure is known.
Now we still need maps/hashes.
Ciao
Frank