[Gridflow-dev] feature requests: @fold1, @foldr, @foldr1, @scan1. @scanr, @scanr1, unary ignore

Mathieu Bouchard matju at sympatico.ca
Fri Sep 17 03:42:28 EDT 2004


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Tom Schouten wrote:

> > You just need to add a Feature.new {} block in ./configure. Maybe
> > I should make a directory called optional/ for modules like this,
> > because that doesn't belong in base/ for sure, and it doesn't belong
> > in format/ because that dir is for [#in]/[#out] plugins.
> yeah, by all means no hard dependencies. i'm not done breaking everything yet :)
> maybe it's best i look at the list import/export objects as an example?

Actually the import objects maybe aren't so good at it because in the last
two years the grid inlet interface has been able to accept 'float' and
'list' messages and convert them on the fly, including lists that contain
dimension and numbertype specifiers. So most of the conversion meat has
been shifted to grid.c (and maybe main.c).

And then this all occurs on the Ruby side of the world, so
bridge/puredata.c does another bunch of conversions, which is slower, and
then you can't call Pd functions directly from gridflow.so (which is
everything except bridge/puredata.c) because gridflow.so is not supposed
to depend on Pd.

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