| Message written at 18 Feb 1997 08:56:12 +0000
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In-reply-to: <9702171635.AA12232@sndart.cemi.unt.edu> (message from Jon
Christopher Nelson on Mon, 17 Feb 97 10:35:37 -0600)
I persist in my view that the only limit to score size is machine
memory. This is part of the extensive changes I made some time ago.
If one has a large score the message "sread: requesting more memory\n"
is printed and it adds another segment of 40,000 bytes. I have tried
Richard Wentk's program and while slow, ....
Csound Version 3.44 (Feb 1 1997)
orchname: Wentk.orc
scorename: Wentk.sco
sorting score ...
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
sread: requesting more memory
and then after a LONG pause it says ...done and carries on.
That pause is significant, and while there there are no signs of life.
I suspect a quadratic sorting method.
==John |