hi,
how about passing symbols, possibly written as somehow prefixed octal, hex or binary numbers, and then atoi()/strtol()/sscanf()/whatever() them to integers?
But I wonder: if there was a huge amount of different masks generated during a Pd session, how this would affect the overall performance? What I mean is that the penalty of symbol hash table slot chaining could get high.
If this is true, then I wonder: is the above a viable reason for giving users a way (like sending a message to pd) to clear symbol table of currently unused (not bound, etc.) elements?
Krzysztof
Orm Finnendahl wrote: ...
I'm trying to use integers in pd externals, but found out, there is no such type. Therefor it seems to be impossible to deal with big integer numbers (ca. 2 ^ 20 and above). Since I'm using them for masking purposes, the numbers have to be transmitted correctly between objects and I would like to use at least 32-bit precision