vade wrote:
If you can sustain the datarates for the number of streams you want the
uncompressed will always win with ease of CPU decoding, at the expense
of being NASTILY hard on your drives.
Chris also suggested using a RAM disk, which would save a lot of wear
and tear on the HD in the
hi,
some sources suggest that there is no or little advantage to use a
ramdisk in os x because the system caches data which has frequent
access anyway.
so a ramdisk can be counterproductive in a cenario where you have
little ram:
lets say you have one gig memory. 300 mb are used by some
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Derek Holzer wrote:
Chris also suggested using a RAM disk, which would save a lot of wear
and tear on the HD in the case of uncompressed video.
What's the difference between a file on the HD that can be cached to RAM,
and a file on the ramdisk that can be swapped to the
There is always the possibility of paging RAM to disk at any point for any
bit of memory and this goes for something like pix_buffer or Pd's
table/array too. Obviously, the machine needs to have not only the free
memory for the RAM disk but a comfortable amount of headroom.
The OSX memory
