Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Paul Davis (paul_AT_linuxaudiosystems.com)
Date: Tue Dec 17 2002 - 04:23:58 EET
>>>about arithmetic: float operations, as you know, introduce
>>>round-off error. integers can be used in accumulators with
>>>much less inconvenience.
>>
>>sorry, its just wrong.
>
>prove it.
sorry, when i said this, i meant something more like:
"sorry, its just not right to force integral values".
in the timeline work i've done for ardour, rounding errors are never
an issue because there is no accumulator used outside of a single
measure's distance.
--p
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