[Dream] DSP vs CPU (Was Timestretch) and now is HANDBAGS AT DAWN

[Doofus McFluoro]

And there I was thinking Andrie had gone all Mr. Spock on us (geek geek!!)

>>>>absolutely... but the intel or AMD has to manage disk access, memory,
OS,
video, network, and all the programs running (forground and background) as
well as your sound app. Computers aren't truly multitasking - they do a
little work on one thread....blah blah

BUT!!! Andrei saved himself with...

>>> (number entirely made up...)

Well done my son... i'm proud of you.  Maybe we could start a new list for
Bullshit weavers... I'd be chief bullshitter and you could be my apprentice.

In the interests of good netiquette (whatever that is... ) I have changed
the header of this thread.  Feel free NOT to follow it

:)-"""

On 2/21/07, andrei.henry at utoronto.ca <andrei.henry at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
> > The new Intel chips (and even the Opteron chips) pack
> > alot more punch than an Accel card.
>
> absolutely... but the intel or AMD has to manage disk access, memory, OS,
> video, network, and all the programs running (forground and background) as
> well as your sound app.
>
> computers aren't truly multitasking - they do a little work on one thread,
> kick it out, load another thread and work on it, kick it out and reload -
> thousands or millions of times per second.  all that loading and unloading
> has overhead which takes away from processing power available for the
> "main
> tasks" (like generating noise, or applying a time-stretching algorithm).
>
> the accel card is 100 times less powerful - but it only does 1/200th the
> work (number entirely made up...)
>
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