[chuck-users] benchmarking UGens

[Atte André Jensen]

Kassen wrote:

> Some notes on your method; you are using a file (and hence a shred) per 
> Ugen. I believe there to be some small overhead for the usage of a shred 
> so I believe you may be ending up with slightly high numbers.

I'll check the difference. But it seems to me that for this purpose 
("which of A and B is more expensive") it doesn't matter since we're 
interested in the relative speed of code.

> As for further tests that might be useful/ interesting; you could 
> compare the Blit osc's to the regular ones (as well as try to deterimine 
> what -if any- difference the amount of harmonics makes). Another 
> interesting thing to compare might be LiSa with multiple voices v.s. as 
> many copies of SndBuf.

Agreed, and I have lot's of other ideas + plan on testing things as they 
occur in my work.

> If at all possible it would also be interesting to fully automate a 
> series of tests like this so we could compare versions of ChucK later.

You're absolutely right. I actually started something automatic, but got 
stuck, and thought a "by-hand" start was better than nothing. I'll for 
sure see if I can make a 100% automatic test.

Thanks for your feedback!

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