Re: [linux-audio-dev] Fixed vs. floating point

From: Georg Holzmann <georg.holzmann@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 10:45:09 EEST

Hallo!

> I am in the early planning stage of an audio processing application and I
> have come to the point of making the choice between floating point or fixed
> point (signed 2's complement) processing.
> What do you think is better, and why? Why does jack use floating point? Why
it depends of course on the hardware: if you write e.g. your application
for PDAs or Mobile Phones, then you will have to use fixed point (at
least for now) ...

LG
Georg
Received on Fri Oct 14 12:15:05 2005

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