22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
12:51 a.m.
How do most of these audio applications behave in
64bit mode? If you
have applications that are running in a 32bit chroot can they
communicate with other applications in 64bit mode? Lets say you have
jackd and rosegarden running in 64bit mode. Can I connect to lets say
Fluidsynth or ZynaddSubFX in a 32bit chroot?
everything ive tried so far behaves fine, except for pd, and i think that shouldnt be much
longer..
I also wonder about price/performance ratio and ease of administration.
Ignoring the fact that it make take a little extra work to get
everything to run smoothly do you find that the performace is worth the
price of x86-64 compared to say athlon xp? Is there a big boost in
the lower end of amd64 line is fast and cheap, same as always for amd..you wll get a
significant performance improvement in 64bit mode due to the extra general purpose
registers, even before factoring in gains due to sse2 vectorization, etc..
worst i had to do was change a few longs to ints, and add -fPIC here and there..it
shouldnt affect anything on your list however..
performance in most audio applications. I most
frequently use csound,
rosegarden, Fluidsynth, Lilypond, and audacity.
Thanks,
Jeremiah