[PD] big soundfiles

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Fri Nov 26 10:11:36 CET 2010


On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> Anyway, I think the solution would be to use 64bit float as the index. 
> In 64-bit Pd, this isn't an issue anymore (or more correct: It will be 
> with _much_ larger tables).

If using the full 64-bit range, we won't have enough RAM in year 2040 to 
reach the limit. That's unless we start using mmap() like crazy, to waste 
a lot of RAM indices (possible pointers).

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