On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 17:44 -0700, Phil Stone wrote: > Roman Haefeli wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 17:06 -0700, Phil Stone wrote: > > > >> Phil Stone wrote: > >> > >>> Does anybody know if ram disks are possible on OS X? > >>> > >>> > >> To answer my own question about OS X ram disks (GIYF), yes it seem to be > >> possible (though not especially well documented). Since most of my > >> files are pretty small, this might help. > >> > >> > >> Phil > >> > > > > why do you need a ram disk? wouldn't it be sufficient to just read all > > necessary files in advance? they will be automatically in ram then... > > > > roman > > > > > Do you mean because of disk caching? If not, then it seems fairly > complicated to create a whole new all-file-loader/memory structure for > each type of file.* The beauty of a ram disk is that it the file > addressing is exactly the same. In fact, I just now set one up in a few > minutes, and it works wonderfully. I can change sssad presets, or > [tunetof] tunings, with nary a glitch. Of course, it won't work for > files big enough to take more than one dsp block to load from ram -- > that's a big limitation. >
i see. i was thinking, that oyu might have only very few file reading objects in your patch, that it would be easy enough to adapt your patch in a manner, that it loads all presets in advance. but if you are using an ready-made, more complex system, then this probably won't be an easy thing to do. nice to hear, that it works with a ramdisk. i never used a ramdisk myself and i didn't know, that it would be so easy to setup. roman ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
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