> Hello Jonathan,
> Thanks for your reply.
> I'm not quite sure what you mean.
> What pd-vanilla object do you use to implement "Variable number of keys of
> arbitrarily typed values"
[text], [coll], etc.
> or "set number of keys with set value types"?data structures
The benefit of the latter is that you know the number of "slots" ahead of time
so you can populate
the data without needing to allocate memory.
> I should add that I'm interested ultimately in a data structure that I can
> populate from text files, read by PD.
In that case I don't think the benefit I mentioned wrt data structures matters
because
the I/O speed will be your limiting factor.
My suggestion would be to start with the more expressive vanilla object--
[text]-- and see
if it fulfills your needs. Keep in mind though that it is at core not a
key/value store but instead
a 2-dimensional array of atoms. E.g., you can decide that the first item in
each line is your
key, but the text class interface does nothing to prevent you from adding more
lines that
duplicate that same key.
-Jonathan
> -ali
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Variable number of keys of arbitrarily typed values, or
set number of keys with set value types?
-Jonathan
From: Ali Momeni <batc...@gmail.com>
To: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 1:09 PM
Subject: [PD] your favorite key:value data structure?
Hello all,
I'm looking for something analogous to the Max "coll" object, or a python
dictionary, or anything with key value pairs.
I'm aware of the 'cyclone' and its 'coll' object.
i'm wondering if there is a pd-vanilla friendly alternative to this 3rd party
external.
any hints?
thanks in advance,
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