Good God the sight of assembly language makes me aroused. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration - it does make me semi-pleased though. 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't part of the alure of 64 bit vs 32 bit the ability to move more data more quickly.  Like for fetch operations and what not?

I'm a software developer myself but not a bit twiddler. As said, I didn't like my assembly classes.  Closest I'd ever want to go there again is "C"

I'm sure that's part of it, though with all the caching being done on-die I think the real significant reason for 64-bit is the ability to access more in-memory data.  IMHO, in a streaming app such as Sonar, you could have a 256-bit CPU/OS/Compiler  and it will still stream at whatever speed the disks could provide data.  It's a bit different for the sampling soft-synths which utilize large memory buffers (BFD,Kontakt,Machfive, et al) to load as many samples in ram as possible, primarily to cut down on latency.


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How much memory can Sonar utilize?  Also, have you ran sonar with a SSD? Wondering what kind of performance enhancements you'd get with one of those.

While technically Sonar could use every bit of RAM you throw at it, I have a feeling that Sonar's actually memory footprint is quite small (less than 1gb) even with a lot of non-synth FX.  In my experience, the only thing that really starts Sonar's memory usage to climb is loading a large memory-footprint plugin like BFD/BFD2.  Bear in mind that I haven't seen even 1 line of source code from sonar and I'm making a lot of conjecture as to it's operation based solely on my experience running it.


I haven't any experience with SSD drives, but the last time I thought about purchasing one (over 6 months ago), I couldn't justify the cost for the marginal increase in "rated" access times.


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sharke


Good God the sight of assembly language makes me aroused. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration - it does make me semi-pleased though. 

Kinda like the smell of napalm in the morning.....LOL!




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sharke


Good God the sight of assembly language makes me aroused. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration - it does make me semi-pleased though. 

You must be a glutton for punishment. 

Appologies to FBB, but I never got screensets.

N-N-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o - Say it isn't so.

Has anyone gotten one of these here yet?

Only you, bapu.

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Ah who writes in machine language? That separates the men from the boys. Me I took a look at assembly once and nearly had a stroke. 

I liked PC BASIC.  

redbarchetta

sharke


Good God the sight of assembly language makes me aroused. Well maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration - it does make me semi-pleased though. 

You must be a glutton for punishment. 

Probably - although I messed around in assembly back in the 6502 days and loved it. Then again I was 11 years old, had all the time in the world and 6502 assembly was a lot simpler!

John


Ah who writes in machine language? That separates the men from the boys. Me I took a look at assembly once and nearly had a stroke. 

I liked PC BASIC.  

You might be surprised to see how much assembly  code is at the very heart of some of the latest A/V codecs and encryption algorithms.   I for one was very grateful when they added the inline-assembly to many of the 'C' compilers.  I remember back in the day when the Zortech compiler was the shiznit.

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