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