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Tim Blechmann wrote:

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>> 64 Studio would seem like an obvious choice but because I would like

>> to have VST's available, I seem to recall that is a possible issue?

>>

>> Beyond that, is there any other advantage(s) to using a x64 OS other

>> than RAM access beyond 4gb? Is there any 32 bit OS performance

>> degradation when installed on a x64 machine?

>>

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> audio applications benefit from the increased number of available

> registers ... e.g. biquad filters can be computed entirely in registers

> without moving temporal data to the stack ...

> with my performance system (combination of supercollider and nova), i

> experienced a speedup of about 30%, when switching from an ia32 to an

> x86_64 system ...

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Tim,
I dont know anything about how this works personally but recall seeing

comments that possibly referred to this;
that an application has to be coded specifically to take advantage of

the 64bit system advantages?
Forgive my ignorance...it's what I do best!
Russell
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