Tim Blechmann wrote: >> 64 Studio would seem like an obvious choice but because I would like >> to have VST's available, I seem to recall that is a possible issue? >> >> Beyond that, is there any other advantage(s) to using a x64 OS other >> than RAM access beyond 4gb? Is there any 32 bit OS performance >> degradation when installed on a x64 machine? >> > > audio applications benefit from the increased number of available > registers ... e.g. biquad filters can be computed entirely in registers > without moving temporal data to the stack ... > with my performance system (combination of supercollider and nova), i > experienced a speedup of about 30%, when switching from an ia32 to an > x86_64 system ... > Tim, I dont know anything about how this works personally but recall seeing comments that possibly referred to this; that an application has to be coded specifically to take advantage of the 64bit system advantages? Forgive my ignorance...it's what I do best! Russell > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
