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From: Simon Wise simonzwise@gmail.com To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [PD] [nbuntil]: an non-blocking [until] replacement
On 17/12/12 08:06, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Why not just trigger each iteration with [bang~]?
because with [bang~] you would get a single iteration per block, rather than as many iterations as you have time for ... which seems to be the intention of [nbuntil], and very useful where you might want to do a loop which may be too long for one cycle but you can wait and use the results when they are ready, after a few cycles perhaps.
Ah I see. So it assumes iterations won't take a majority of a dsp tick.
-Jonathan
Simon
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