i wonder now, how much these objs consume. is there a possibillity to measure that ? (i made once a patch which creates [osc~] with random frequencies. i wanted to find out how many osc~s i can create until the cpu goes to 100% or i hear clicks) <- is this test meaningfull? if the consumption is not very low, my plan to optimize may result in a worse performance instead of a better one.
i'd suggest to use a profiler ... e.g. gprof on linux, shark on osx ... i also heard that intel released its vtune for linux for noncommercial use, but haven't been able to install it on my gentoo machine (although someone posted the install description on forums.gentoo.org)
and: does the [inlet~]-obj consume any cpu-power?
iirc, it is compiled into the dsp chain, except if blocking or up/downsampling is used...
hope this helps .... tim