23 Jul
2003
23 Jul
'03
6:07 p.m.
On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 03:48 AM, Anahata wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:38:08PM -0400, Jesse
Chappell wrote:
Yes. I believe Audacity only loads the graphical waveform view into RAM
and the rest is streamed from disk. Dominic
Mazonni (audacity's lead developer) explained the exact algorithm once
on the dev list, ending the sentence with "...and a little black magic"
so I assume the algorithm is a bit complicated.
I have opened and worked on files over two hours long in Audacity.
-lee
Sweep has a great interface, but it still has one
significant
downside: all the audio is loaded into memory. This prevents
the effective editing of large soundfiles or sessions unless you
have a ton of memory (or it will swap all over you).
Is there a significant difference between having (a) the audio editing
program or (b) the memory manager decide what to keep in physical
memory
and what to swap to disk?