[PD] big soundfiles

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 10:30 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
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> On 11/26/2010 08:34 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
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> > Anyway, I think the solution would be to use 64bit float as the index.
> 
> true.
> 
> > In 64-bit Pd, this isn't an issue anymore (or more correct: It will be
> > with _much_ larger tables).
> 
> what do you mean by "64-bit Pd"?
> it _could_ mean 2 thing (for me):
> - - any (newish) Pd compiled on 64bit platform
> - - a Pd that uses 64bit (double-precision) floats for it's internal
> t_sample/t_float type, regardless of the architecture it runs on
> 
> #1 is simply wrong, as all "proper" Pd's (that is, _not_ Pd-anywhere)
> use 32bit (single precision) float for numbers. so on my amd64 system, i
> still have the same issue
> 
> #2 would be the solution, but even though i started double-ifying Pd
> some time ago, i haven't done anything in the last 2 years or so, which
> made the project stall. so Pd is not double-precision ready yet (i think
> it is still only the sound-generators like [phasor~] and [osc~] that are
> missing)

Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, I was believing, that Pd compiled
on an amd64 maschine would operate with 64bit floating point numbers
internally. Too bad, this isn't the case.

Roman