[LAU] 64 bit systems

[Russell Hanaghan]

Tim Blechmann wrote:
>> 64 Studio would seem like an obvious choice but because I would like  
>> to have VST's available, I seem to recall that is a possible issue?
>>
>> Beyond that, is there any other advantage(s) to using a x64 OS other  
>> than RAM access beyond 4gb? Is there any 32 bit OS performance  
>> degradation when installed on a x64 machine?
>>     
>
> audio applications benefit from the increased number of available
> registers ... e.g. biquad filters can be computed entirely in registers
> without moving temporal data to the stack ...
> with my performance system (combination of supercollider and nova), i
> experienced a speedup of about 30%, when switching from an ia32 to an
> x86_64 system ...
>   

Tim,

I dont know anything about how this works personally but recall seeing 
comments that possibly referred to this;

that an application has to be coded specifically to take advantage of 
the 64bit system advantages?

Forgive my ignorance...it's what I do best!

Russell

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