Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 13:54:21 EET
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:30:46 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
> The only other audio format that could be of interest for XAP could
> be double, but I think that can wait until people actually start
> complaining about float being insufficient. :-)
>
> Double *controls* might actually be useful in some cases, though.
> Song position demonstrates the weakness of float, but the question is
> if that applies to many other things.
The chache hit makes them very expensive on PIII class chips. Sometimes
they are needed internally (in filter inner loops), but not externally in
my experience.
- Steve
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