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
