until now i always used [list-compare] from the list-abs library for comparing lists. accidentally i found a method that seems much more efficient (although it was not possible without [list tosymbol] and [fudiformat]): compare.pd

This is great, thanks!
What do you need [fudiformat] for? It seems to work without if inputs are lists.

@Gabriel-Lecup You are right, you can replace [fudiformat] with [list] (or send everything that you want to compare as a list, then you need none of them).

Great, thank you, wish I'd bumped into this sooner!