Hallo, Steffen hat gesagt: // Steffen wrote:
On 10/02/2007, at 0.51, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Just remember, that everything, that is connected directly trough signal cords, will be evaluated top to bottom, and everything that is not connected through signal chords, will be evaluated in "random" order [...]
But it properly isn't random, as from the quote from Millers book
says "in reality Pd executes them all in a sequential order". The
lesson learned from here, from Frank, is, as i understand it, that if
the order is not directly defined via cords, then one can't be sure
to know what happens.
Yep, exactly.
Of course, not much in a computer is truly random, but from a patch author's and user's point of view, in the end the order of executing non-local connections appears "random". If you look at a patch you built one week ago, do you remember the order you made the connections? And maybe you copied and pasted some stuff, used Ctrl-Z or something else, which may have changed the order without you knowing it.
That's why I really prefer to call this "random" or "undefined" or "ambigous" in a non-scientific, practical sense. It may work now, but may break tomorrow.
Also one should be aware, that very often the actual order of execution of signal cords doesn't matter. It does matter in waveguide stuff or in comb filters where you need these small delay times.
Ciao
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