On 28 Feb 2006, at 18:29, Miller Puckette wrote:
On some OSes (I needn't name names:) the system can hang if one asks to malloc too much space. This was a major cause of headaches for people trying to use Pd to read large soundfiles. Anyway, as you already found, this doesn't affect the "soundfiler" object which has a settable maximum.
Thank you for that clarification. I understand the original limitation now.
However, I am wondering whether it wouldn't be better to pre-empt large soundfile loading, as opposed to making people who need to use large soundfile arrays use custom compilation?
Just a thought, I realise there's history at play here.
d
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