Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 17:06 -0700, Phil Stone wrote: > >> Phil Stone wrote: >> >>> Does anybody know if ram disks are possible on OS X? >>> >>> >> To answer my own question about OS X ram disks (GIYF), yes it seem to be >> possible (though not especially well documented). Since most of my >> files are pretty small, this might help. >> >> >> Phil >> > > why do you need a ram disk? wouldn't it be sufficient to just read all > necessary files in advance? they will be automatically in ram then... > > roman >
Do you mean because of disk caching? If not, then it seems fairly complicated to create a whole new all-file-loader/memory structure for each type of file.* The beauty of a ram disk is that it the file addressing is exactly the same. In fact, I just now set one up in a few minutes, and it works wonderfully. I can change sssad presets, or [tunetof] tunings, with nary a glitch. Of course, it won't work for files big enough to take more than one dsp block to load from ram -- that's a big limitation. * I imagine this working by pre-loading everything in a given directory (or listed in another file, maybe). Storing, then accessing and copying that information live doesn't seem trivial, to me at least. Phil _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
