Re: [linux-audio-dev] an interesting idea/point/issue from vst-land

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] an interesting idea/point/issue from vst-land
From: James McCartney (asynth_AT_io.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 11:32:30 EEST

on 3/28/00 3:12 AM, Stephane Conversy at Stephane.Conversy_AT_lri.fr wrote:

> And finally, another pros for float: I may want to use Altivec SIMD
> instructions.
> Often, the vector unit operations takes an amount of float operands
> which is twice
> the number of doule operands, so it's twice as fast.

Actually Altivec does not handle doubles at all, only floats.

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