I do plan a 32 bit version of the installer. I am currently extremely busy 
and will be free(er) in a week or so.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Istvan Varga" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Realtime Csound5


> It may be possible that I will reduce the .zip package to contain only
> the 32 bit files organized in a way that it can be installed on top of
> the Gogins distribution. Also, if future versions of the installer do
> include optimized 32 bit binaries in a way that both single and double
> precision can be used in the same installation, the .zip may become no
> longer useful, and discontinued.
>
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 04:54, Art Hunkins 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.
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