I've been comparing csound.exe and csound32.exe with respect to realtime
performance. (Csound.exe is the 64-bit, "higher precision" version.)

I can report that csound32.exe has a small but significant advantage as to
what it can handle without breakup compared with csound.exe. I'm currently
working on a .csd which runs fine at 44100SR with csound32.exe, but breaks
up with csound.exe. (I imagine the difference is comparable to the
difference in render times for the two versions.)

That being the case, I'd recommend csound32.exe for all realtime use (on
Windows anyway). This means you need to install from the .zip distribution
(Varga) rather than the Gogins installer .exe, as the Gogins distro only
contains csound.exe - not csound32.exe.

Art Hunkins

Thanks for the report (I always use the floats version anyway, never bothered
with the doubles... even for 'tape' pieces. But it's good to know).

Victor

At 03:54 01/03/2006, you wrote:
>I've been comparing csound.exe and csound32.exe with respect to realtime
>performance. (Csound.exe is the 64-bit, "higher precision" version.)
>
>I can report that csound32.exe has a small but significant advantage as to
>what it can handle without breakup compared with csound.exe. I'm currently
>working on a .csd which runs fine at 44100SR with csound32.exe, but breaks
>up with csound.exe. (I imagine the difference is comparable to the
>difference in render times for the two versions.)
>
>That being the case, I'd recommend csound32.exe for all realtime use (on
>Windows anyway). This means you need to install from the .zip distribution
>(Varga) rather than the Gogins installer .exe, as the Gogins distro only
>contains csound.exe - not csound32.exe.
>
>Art Hunkins
>
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Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth