20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
2:51 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:27 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 20, 2012 1:14 PM, "Paul Davis"
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
intel-compatible CPUs that do not support SSE2 are now a rare breed in
desktops + laptops. i'm not saying it can't be used, just that you're doing
without a very very powerful set of instructions that dramatically improves
the performance of apps doing floating point math (e.g. audio). its just
not a machine i'd pick to do synthesis with unless it my only choice.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:50 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Yes. I'm just trying out different things. I had Debian on the desktop
computer for a long time (10 yrs without a reinstall!) I have Ubuntu Studio
on my work laptop and a minimal ubuntu + LXDE on the netbook.. I thought
AVLinux was looking good from pov of Jack performance but I am hitting some
problems with the apps installed (optimised for SSE2 when my CPU wont do
it, this linuxsampler problem etc..).
not having an SSE2 CPU seems like a bad, bad place to start ...
Perhaps.. but I don't see myself upgrading in the near future. After all,
it has handled everything I havd thrown at it until now.. and I am not
trying to do anything dramatically different or more CPU intense than
anything I have done before.
I don't think Athlon XPs are that uncommon amongst Linux users given our
fondness for keeping machines running as long as possible!