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

From: Albert Graef <Dr.Graef@email-addr-hidden-online.de>
Date: Sat Oct 15 2005 - 00:29:19 EEST

fons adriaensen wrote:
> The bottom line is really quite simple: if your app is to run on a PC, use floats.
> There are some very good reasons why floats were chosen as JACK's default audio
> type.

I agree with that conclusion. Just don't forget about the denormals
issue on Intel (has this been mentioned in this thread before?).
However, it's easy to work around this by adding a small amount of noise
where necessary.

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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Received on Sat Oct 15 04:15:04 2005

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