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
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