interleaved arrays (was: Re: [PD] PD n00b: counter kludge)

hi Thomas,

bear with my dumbness... do I understand well, that you are talking about making the cpu cache happy? Have you done real-world measurements?

Is making cpu happy worth making people unhappy with sacrificing the flexible, uniform, and standard Pd feature for a few cycles?

And, even if it was so... perhaps, it is more like time to think about introducing interleaved arrays into Pd's core, so that the soundfiler, tab<whatever>~, etc. are all aware of them?

Krzysztof

Thomas Grill wrote: ...

great that it works at all, but clearly it is far more efficient to use interleaved samples in one memory structure. I'm in the process of optimizing xsample's performance, therefore i'm interested in a more native implementation of Max's buffer~.