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Originally Posted by Dunny
Having 64bit instructions makes my job much easier - audio processing. 64 bit floats are handled atomically for starters and having extra RAM immediately addressable is a godsend for working with multi-gigabyte instruments.
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While I am not against more than 2 or 4 GB and can see the benefit of a larger address-space for some (rare) applications, your example does not convince me.
I still do not understand why one would hold multi-gigabytes of instrument-samples in RAM - especially in a highly redundant resolution.
you mentioned some latency related reasons, but that makes still no sense to me at all, since we are in the digital realm:
a higher sampling rate means just more data that needs to be processed. More data representing the same period of time. That means higher demand of RAM, bandwidths and processing power. How can this possibly reduce latency?