[linux-audio-user] SuperCollider works great on Linux, audio results

[carmen]

On Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 02:22:34PM +0900, Renick Bell wrote:
> >> Searching the archive, there has been very little mention of
> >> SuperCollider on this list in the past year
> >
> >does it work on x86-64 yet? if no, can you get the same performance/functionality from supyrcollider/hsc/ssc (et al) ?
> 
> The server appears to, since at least November 2005. As for the
> language, it appears it only runs at 32. McCartney says:

right. the main reaosn i asked, is the topic was 'works great on Linux'. and i found it to be the opposite. 

it seems to be a problem that affects a lot of VMs that made assumptions on word size early on - Macromedia Flash and Pure Data notwithstanding

> 
> "There shouldn't be any problem running it as a 32 bit app on a 64 bit machine.
> SClang cannot be compiled for 64 bit because it relies on
> sizeof(Object*) < sizeof(double).
> This would require significant reworking to fix."
> 
> and
> 
> "I don't really see a big need to run the language in a 64 bit address
> space, though."
> 
> See this thread:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/sc-on-linux-64-bit-tf477603.html#a1300129
> 
> I haven't used things like Rohan Drape's Scheme or Haskell
> SuperCollider clients, so I can't really say much about them.
> 
> >how about jack.. fully native?
> 
> I boot scserver and SuperCollider appears in Patchage automatically
> hooked up to the audio outs. I can swap things around, like patching
> SuperCollider into various channels in Ardour, Jamin, JAAA, or other
> apps. I can patch audio into SuperCollider. I'm not using esd or
> anything, if that's what you mean.
> 
> Renick
> 
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