Hallo, Charles Henry hat gesagt: // Charles Henry wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Miller Puckette mpuckett@imusic1.ucsd.edu wrote:
Gee, I forgot to document this one, sorry.
a turned-off switch~ can be used to single-step the DSP in a window by sinding it a bang message. Â So you can "switch~ 2048" in a window, connect a tabplay~ to a tabwrite~ inside it, start them, then send the switch~ N/2048 bangs to copy N samples from one table to another.
I used to use a [bang~]->toggle->[switch~] construction to try to have one execution and then switch off. Thanks for the tip! I guess I won't need that one anymore.
I've been using this a lot recently as well, but I don't think, Miller's undocumented suggestion can replace this in all cases. One advantage of the bang~->switch~ approach is - I believe - that it gets rid of many function calls: You just let the CPU compute a set of, say 64 samples with basically one function call per object. But if you send 64 bangs instead, I think, the object get activated 64 time so you have 64 function calls which should be slower.
Is my reasoning correct?
Ciao
Frank