19 Oct
2002
19 Oct
'02
3:52 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:55:09 -0400, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
While its true that msp objects are written in C they are not all
high level. Sync is a compiler, it may well generate C as an intermediary
langauge, I dont know.
- Steve
Of course,
plenty of MacOS audio software is written in Max/MSP (a
relative of pd). There is also some Windows software written in Sync -
both are graphical languages.
Although all the actual DSP objects themselves in MSP are written in C,
just like
in pd and jMax. I don't know about Sync (don't know much about it), but
I suspect
that to also be the case there as well. The point is that all the
actual number
crunching code is in fact written in C, even if you use a very
high-level object-oriented