Luigi Castelli

I am working on an external object that is supposed to output X and Y coordinate values.

I am wondering in terms of efficiency and flexibility if it's better to have one outlet that outputs a list of x and y values,

or have two float outlets to spit out the numbers separately. Since the object is probably gonna be polled every few milliseconds,

I am wondering if it's faster to just have one list outlet rather than 2 float outlets.

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I am working on an external object that is supposed to output X and Y coordinate values.
I am wondering in terms of efficiency and flexibility if it's better to have one outlet that outputs a list of x and y values,
or have two float outlets to spit out the numbers separately. Since the object is probably gonna be polled every few milliseconds,
I am wondering if it's faster to just have one list outlet rather than 2 float outlets.

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floatout-or-listout

I'd say this depends more on how you are going to use the data after it exits your external. In general more patch cords means more memory and more cpu overhead. If you're planning to send the coordinates as a list to other parts of your patch, output them as a list. If you're going to put an unpack directly after your external's output, use two separate floats.

floatout() or listout() ?