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

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] an interesting idea/point/issue fromvst-land
From: Stephane Conversy (Stephane.Conversy_AT_lri.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 13:06:56 EEST

James McCartney wrote:
>
> 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.

Ooops, I mixed up with philips trimedia. So the use of altivec is only
possible with float. 

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Stéphane Conversy
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