[gmpi] Re: New Reqs 3.8 - Events
- From: "Michael Gogins" <gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:59:50 -0500
Two to the 32nd = 4294967296 / 96000 sample frames per second / 60 seconds /
60 minutes = 12.43 hours, which is not really enough; suppose one does a
Cage or Sorabji length piece?... What if there is a higher sampling rate?...
Therefore I vote for 64 bits.
In this kind of engineering, supposing that quantity or precision x will "be
enough" is almost always incorrect. We need to think through and satisfy
truly extreme cases.
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Michael Gogins
gogins at pipeline period com
Irreducible Productions
CsoundVST, an extended version of Csound for programming music and sound
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Harris" <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:16 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: New Reqs 3.8 - Events
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:38:21AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:34:32AM -0800, Marc Poirier wrote:
> > > Yeah, it seems pretty silly to be discussing performance costs of 32
vs.
> > > 64 bit for event timestamps. If there's any reason to say that 64-bit
> > > timestamps would be useful (which I think has already been shown),
then we
> > > should just use them. The amount of CPU time that goes to handling
> >
> > I agree, except that no one has made a case that 32 bit offsets will be
less
> > useful or that 64 bit absolutes will be more useful.
>
> Quite - I think its a simple matter of use preference. Vote?
>
> - Steve
>
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