On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Hans Roels wrote:

I noticed some strange behaviour of some higher math objects in Pd vanilla (0.42-4): 'log~' has a right inlet

log(a,b) = log(a)/log(b)

it's dumb, because when a two-input log is computed, it takes the time of two one-input logs plus the time of a division... which is normal and useful, but the problem is that you can't make it compute any faster. e.g. you could precompute log(b), or you could even precompute 1/log(b) because nowadays it's faster to multiply than to divide, but those accelerations would need the existence of a one-input log. You don't find this in Pd's internals. You find this as [expr~ log($v1)].

file a 'optional creation argument initializes right inlet (the base of the logarithm)' but this doesn't work. If I create a 'log~ 10' object it still computes the logarithm base e

I tried it with 0.42-5 and it worked.

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