Hallo, gÃŒnter geiger hat gesagt: // gÃŒnter geiger wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
would give a big performance boost. OTOH it is possible to get this boost right now, if it's important, by replacing the serialization in [list-drip] with zexy's drip. As all [list]-abs use the [list-drip] abstraction, this will accelerate all of them immediatly.
Or for the same reason by using the "serialize" object from ggee, which might have been an inspiration for Johannes' drip. But then it might have not, sometimes people just do the same thing at the same time in different places without knowing. In any case it might be a sign of the usefullness of the object.
However [serialize] works the other way around, by turning a stream of floats into a list. In Zexy a similar object is called [repack], however repack starts a new list as soon as the specified length is reached and then waits until the new list is filled.
In [list]-abs I have [list-lastx] which basically is the same as your [serialize], additionally it also accepts symbol atoms to pack into the list. A [repack] clone is not part of [list]-abs (yet), but it's simply done using a:
[list prepend]X[t a]
Zexy's drip and my [list-drip] "unpack" a list, that is, they spit out each element of a list after another. [list-drip] has a IMO quite useful second outlet which sends a bang, after the whole input list was consumed.
Regarding the usefulness: All my newer patches use at least one [list] object. And regarding the usefulness of [list-drip]: Of the currently 40 list-abstractions 19 use a kind of "drip".
Ciao
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