[PD] Save RAM memory usage ?

[Solen Music]

okay. i found iem16 at ftp://ftp.iem.at/pub/pd/Externals/ (duh! the
giveaway was the iem bit). it seems to run okay on my windows machine.

but is the only way to load something into the table16 object by
copying from a regular pd array?

i'm trying to patch up a scratch pd array which every sample will
visit before arriving at it's table16. but is there a more elegant
solution similar to soundfiler for this?


thanks again.

2008/7/24 Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org>:
> Solen Music wrote:
>>
>> is there anything i can do to save on RAM??
>
> PD uses 32bits natively (unless you compiled it especially for 64bit), so
> the iem16 stuff would halve the amount of RAM required, but at the slight
> expense of audio quality (doesn't matter if your files loaded into tables
> are 16bit, but for delay lines you might notice the decreased dynamic
> range).
>
>> also how can i calculate roughly how much RAM that pd will need per
>> second of audio array/delay line etc.??
>
> 4 bytes per sample * 44100 samples per second (or whatever the sample rate
> is) for 32bit audio.
>
> Plus a small constant (I hope) overhead for bookkeeping for each object.
>
>
> Claude
> --
> http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org
>
>



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