There's also the best-case scenario where you have already loaded multiple [coll]s or where you do some offset, so you don't need to access the disk any more.
Or if part of the RAM is used as a virtual HD. Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas. ________________________________ From: Pd-list <[email protected]> on behalf of Matt Barber <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 1:52 AM To: Derek Kwan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PD] [coll] bug There's always a worst-case scenario for a system call blocking on loading even a small file that would involve dropouts. Nothing is guaranteed when you read from disk. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Derek Kwan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Lots of thoughts here, but little time. Here are the salient points to me: > > 1. The best analogy to this in Pd is [soundfiler]. [soundfiler] stops the > world in order to load the file, which routinely causes dropouts. This is a > constant source of disappointment and frustration to students especially > if.....................
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