Re: [linux-audio-dev] interesting post from vst-plugins on float/int

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] interesting post from vst-plugins on float/int
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 11:59:20 EEST

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:35:40 -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote:
> I still use ints and fixed point because shifting and masking are
> faster than fdiv and fmod.
> As far as I know you cant do those instructions in one cycle using
> floats, and I use them everywhere.

That would be in wavbetable phase though, everyone uses ints for those, for
one thing you get tuning problems if you use floats.

- Steve
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