2011/1/11 Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca>
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Ludwig Maes wrote:

I always felt message passing was unnecessarily expensive but I didnt realise message passing was that expensive! I seriously think it would be good to have a pd front end for gcc, a few of us should take the time to learn GIMPLE and implement a "compile" menu item to compile patches/subpatches.

There are a lot of possible ways to compile patches without having to deal with machine code generation and use. I'm sure you can triple the speed of a lot of patches in this manner, and I wouldn't be surprised to get tenfold improvements in some cases.


That sounds too cool! Is there a way which includes graphical objects as well?

Andras

 
OTOH, another way to deal with a slow interpreter, is to pass fewer, bigger messages, to objects that do more work at once. This is much of the original idea for creating GridFlow.