Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Newcomer to the list
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 11:41:45 EEST
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:48:00AM +0100, Anahata wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:38:08PM -0400, Jesse Chappell wrote:
>
> > Sweep has a great interface, but it still has one significant
> > downside: all the audio is loaded into memory. This prevents
> > the effective editing of large soundfiles or sessions unless you
> > have a ton of memory (or it will swap all over you).
>
> Is there a significant difference between having (a) the audio editing
> program or (b) the memory manager decide what to keep in physical memory
> and what to swap to disk?
Yes. Both from a practical p.o.v. and theoretical. Dominic (one of the
authors of audacity) has a paper about it in Computer Music Journal 26(2)
pp 62--76.
Try loading a GB file into sweep and audacity and you will see the
difference immediatly.
- Steve
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