From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro & WAV files
Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:12:42 +0000
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Simun Mikecin writes:
>Couldn't you use 64-bit unsigned int (unsigned long long), 
>and have both the accuracy and length?

I could do, but it wouldn't be nearly as efficient. Sample mixing is one
of those trivial little operations that gets repeated millions of times
in a tight loop, so switching from 32 to 64 bit ints would cause a
significant performance hit. 

I think that by tweaking the shift value I can get it to play samples up
to a minute or two in length, and anything much longer than that is
going to have trouble fitting into memory in any case...


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