The original problem was that sometimes allocating lots of memory would slow the machine to a crawl. I guess with more modern OSes this isn't necessary (and anyway people aren't using 32-megabyte machines much anymore) so this isn't necessary any longer. I'll go ahead and remove it.
cheers Miller On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:14:49AM +0200, Christof Ressi wrote: > I quoted the "16 MB" thing from the source code but you're right that it > probably comes from the precision limit. > > > You kinda need to know what you do when exceeding that or the result > > may have bad sound quality. > > sure, but this is rather an issue with [tabread4~] (which is addressed in the > help patch). I might as well want to play the table with [tabplay~]. or do > something completely different with the data. I think [soundfiler] should be > agnostic about it. > > btw, Pd extended didn't have this limit and I remember that I was puzzled > when I switched to Pd vanilla and my soundfiles would be cut off. the default > value isn't even documented. in all this years I've only ever used "-maxsize" > to circumvent the default maxsize - which I find quite ironic :-) > > > > Gesendet: Montag, 28. Mai 2018 um 23:30 Uhr > > Von: "Roman Haefeli" <[email protected]> > > An: [email protected] > > Betreff: Re: [PD] [soundfiler] - get rid of the arbitrary default value for > > "-maxsize" > > > > On Sat, 2018-05-26 at 16:37 +0200, Christof Ressi wrote: > > > https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/366 > > > > > > I guess that arbitrary 16MB default maxsize is a relict of past > > > times... let's get rid of it :-) > > > > You make it sound like the reason for the limit was precious memory. I > > agree that memory often is not that precious anymore, but the real > > reason for this limit might have been the fact that you lose precision > > the higher your index for table lookup is. I guess above 16MB you even > > can't address every single integer anymore with 32bit float numbers. > > You kinda need to know what you do when exceeding that or the result > > may have bad sound quality. > > > > Roman_______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
