Hallo, Matt Barber hat gesagt: // Matt Barber wrote:
Very fast, but what I like about list-abs is its pedagogical potential for students who will never look at C-code but might be interested to see things go in Pd.
You've got the point here.
For list-abs, externals are not allowed. That's the whole point of it: Provide a common interface for list operations that run on every vanilla Pd without externals.
*However*: That should not stop anyone from making alternative implementations of the same interface. In fact, my personal [list-drip] is just a wrapper around zexy's [drip]. I put it in my pd-path before the list-abs path so it gets loaded instead.
For sorting you could for example use zexy's [sort] inside of [list-sort] and have a very fast sorting. Or write one in Lua and sort symbols as well. Etc.
But a [table]-based implementation of sorting is tempting, as we only do float-sorting anyway.
Ciao
Frank