Christian Guirreri wrote:

> I'm wondering if there is any information about WinCSound performance
> compared to other OS's, particularly the Power Mac version.  I run CSound
> on a Power Mac at school with 32MB RAM and it appears to be much faster
> than my Win98-based, PII-266, 128MB RAM, all SCSI system at home.  We have
> version 3.92 at school and I'm running 3.93 at home.  The orc+sco I'm using
> has 8 instruments, one of which uses a 500K sample loaded in an ftable, and
> the work is about 5:00 long.  Compiling at home is nearly twice longer than
> it is at school.  I'm wondering if others have seen similar results (kind
> of difficult considering we all have different computers), and if there are
> any performance tips and tweaks.

I don't have any specific performance figures, but I can back up your
observations about Csound running in Win 98.  I have a dual boot Win
98/Linux machine, with a Pentium II running at 300 MHz.  Performance of
Csound is at least 3 times faster (from my observations) in Linux than
in Win 98.  From my knowledge of operating system internals, I believe
this speed difference is due to the fact that Windows 98 is spawned from
the loins of the devil.