Re: [LAD] Floating point Denormals: C++ and Waf

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Aug 02 2012 - 18:28:27 EEST

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Robillard <d@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

>
> Is there a reason Jack can't do this for everything? I am not really
> keen on putting a bunch of mysterious assembler crap in a host meant to
> be a relatively clean example, and it's even worse to make plugins have
> to do this...
>

JACK doesn't get a chance to handle the output of a plugin until the host
hands it over to JACK and the process cycle ends. Just have a reverb plugin
outputting denormals and then have the host apply a gain value and boom ..
JACK can't play a role in that signal flow.

> What is the scope of the state of the flush-to-zero flag? Process?
> Thread?
>

process, i believe.

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