On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 17:44 -0700, Phil Stone wrote:
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 see. i was thinking, that oyu might have only very few file reading objects in your patch, that it would be easy enough to adapt your patch in a manner, that it loads all presets in advance. but if you are using an ready-made, more complex system, then this probably won't be an easy thing to do.
nice to hear, that it works with a ramdisk. i never used a ramdisk myself and i didn't know, that it would be so easy to setup.
roman
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