> This is the main point. There are so so few devices that actually _have_ to
> have lots of linear memory it is questionable that it is worth paying the
> price to allow modules to allocate that way
Soundcard hardware wavetable synthesizers come in mind. There are very
few cards that do _not_ require multimegabyte contiguous memory.
But then again software synthesizers are realizable these days.
Tom
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