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Free 1.9 GB East west sample library for download
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UnderTow
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Posted : Dec 11, 2006 23:28
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On 2006-12-10 01:56, Saf wrote:
Speaking as a programmer, executable programs need to be fully loaded into memory, or a combination of memory and disk swap in order to run...
So even though this is just a self-extracting file, it still would need to find 1.9GB of real and or virtual memory on your computer in order to unzip.
Making a self extracting exe 1.9GB is not really smart to do.
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The executable isn't 1.9GB as such. It is a tiny executable with the compressed data tagged on. The decompression process never takes more than about 25MB of RAM.
It installed fine here.
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Saf
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Posted : Dec 12, 2006 08:14
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Yeah I realize the executable segment is tiny, it is the data segment of the file which is big.
I guess the OS is smart enough to not bother loading the whole data segment if it is that large, although I really had my doubts because of some past experiences until you pointed out it only used 25MB at a time.
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Dec 12, 2006 08:56
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anyways, how are the samples?
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