On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Thomas Grill wrote:
this is because PD maintains it's internal structures using linked lists
which gives a very bad behavior with many structure items.
I don't think that the use of linked lists so far has caused any
significant problem. The problem lies more in things like recompiling the
DSP many times in a row without any use for it, and such.
Linked list problems can appear if you try to use a few hundred inlets in
the same object, or a few thousands objects (or maybe less). Creating N
[inlet]s dynamically takes O(n^3) time... it's as much a question of
algorithms and reducing the number of updates, as it is a matter of linked
lists. In that case you can reduce to O(n^2 log n) by using a better sort
algorithm, but you can reduce to O(n^2) if you just sort less often, O(n
log n) if you do both, and O(1) if Pd wasn't relying on the x-position of
[inlet] objects in the first place.
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