Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Fixing Freeverb and Denormals

From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Jan 23 2005 - 00:13:51 EET

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:22:41AM +0000, Neil Klepeis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I compiled the CMT plugins with the g++ options -msse2 and -march=i686
> and the freeverb denormals problem (seen with ardour on a dual Xeon
> machine) seems to be _almost_ entirely fixed. Also, I don't see any
> weird problems with the ardour host (yet :). But, I still see the DSP
> load increasing from around 5% to about 15%, although now it is _much_
> farther along in the tails of the reverb than before and I get _zero_
> xruns. [before, the DSP shot up to 60-90% with tons of xruns and
> usually the zombification of ardour].

right, with SSE you still get denormals, they just cost less. I've posted
some code in the past that turns of denormal handling in SSE.

- Steve
Received on Sun Jan 23 04:15:08 2005

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Sun Jan 23 2005 - 04:15:08 EET