I think it's happening all at once in one block.
It's kind of a baroque way of doing it, however clever; an actual clear method would be better, and a memset() call is fast and and among the least controversial ways of zeroing a buffer.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
Cyrille is doing it one go by exploiting the "bang" feature of switch~
with an [until] loop to basically "fast forward" the zeroing process by however many blocks long the buffer is. It's really clever, and I don't think it screws anything up on the outside. This is a technique I'd never thought of, and I can imagine some interesting things coming from this (though I'm not sure it's a canonical technique or incidental). There are some things to think about, like whether the [inlet~] vector is cleared or if it just keeps the last 64 samples for each iteration of the [until] loop.
I'm just talking in general about the idea of amortizing the cost of the operation across multiple blocks, which I assume is what's happening in his abstraction (or at least what's supposed to happen).
Hm... In practice, how do you find Pd-l2ork's "clear" method compares to Cyrille's abstraction?
-Jonathan