[LAU] jconv settings

Jack O'Quin jack.oquin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 19:48:03 EDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009 23:51:08 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>> You are both very right about this. Gold-plating the cpu socket will
>> do wonders for the light and fast bits used to convolve the first few
>> kilosamples of a long IR - being light (and thus having little kinetic
>> energy) they really need low-resistance paths. For the later parts
>> of the IR jconv uses heavy bits, and a lot of them. Having all this
>> mass vibrate can put excessive stress on you CPU.
>
> As far as I know blind-tests show that there is no statistical prove that
> gold-plating on the cpu is any better then using a melted coat-hanger.
> It all depends on whether you talk to your cpu in a nice language and treat it
> with some goodies every now and then...

What kind of goodies do you recommend?  Spilling coffee on the keyboard?
-- 
 joq



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