Hallo, Thoralf Schulze hat gesagt: // Thoralf Schulze wrote:
get your point ... Then again, (and please correct me if I'm wrong), I prefer using specialised (and precompiled) functions available in external libraries to having to reintervent them in an abstraction. Since pd is an interpreting language, this should also make a difference performance-wise ...
There's always a tradeoff between performance and flexibility. If performance was the only thing important, we'd not use Pd at all.
The list operation I showed as examples in this thread mostly do things, that were not possible inside a single external yet (list-math, list-makefilename) or would use externals which do even more stuff like [nroute] or even [pyext].
And most importantly: A user can modify these operations to his own needs without having to write a new external, just by patching. That's a lot of flexibility for a generally minor performance loss.
And all with just one new object.
Ciao
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