i cant look at the patch but i can guess the situation.

using a messagebox is definetly slower because of the graphics update which probably need 10 times more CPU to pass "hello" than all other objects together.

thats true for everything with graphics. so as soon as you are experienced enough to know things like gate, bang, messages by heart you should stop using button, flonum, messagebox, grapic gates and this stuff as they only make your patch slower.

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vanille: what about sprintf? of course it wont work for lists.

Thanks for the comments. I see it's probably as trivial as I thought it might be when it comes to small patches.

There's a really cool tool called 'pedant' in the toolbox area, It compares the execution speed of 2 patchers (and can do N executions and calculate the average execution time).

I use it all the time and had a few surprises on what is efficient code and what isn't.