Effcient programming with OSC protocol?

Hi Daniel,

I think using different ports would increase the chance of error quite
dramatically.

What I do is simply prepend a number to the OSC-string, and then use
regular route->send objects, and go from there.

Andreas.

Danjel van Tijn skrev:
> I have a program sending commands via OSC to a max/msp patch.
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> I need to make a decision about how I structure max to work with the software sending OSC but I am not sure if one of the methods is a big "no-no" (e.g. overly processor intensive)
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> Option 1:
> The host program sending OSC commands sends commands out on 30 different ports. Different sections of the max patch listen to the different ports.
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> Option 2:
> The large amount of commands are all sent on one port only but the max patch routes them to the different sections. (e.g. use CNMAT's OSC_Route object)
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> In option 1 I am not sure if it is a bad idea to use more than one port as this would be the ideal solution for the particular problem I am working on. Any overhead I should be considering?
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