Re: [LAD] Is -ffast-math safe for audio?

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:33:24PM +0500, Nikita Zlobin wrote:
> In Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:18:01 +0000
> Gordonjcp <gordonjcp@gjcp.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:09:02PM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > > On 11/23/2018 01:00 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > Thanks for going into this in such detail Robin. I never realised
> > > > fp stuff could be *quite* so, umm, approximate!
> > >
> > > Depending on context and the maths, the difference may not matter at
> > > all, or may be off completely..
> >
> > Surely the answer is just to use 16-bit ints for everything, then...?
> >
>
> Let me note - it would be at least 32-bit int, since in 32bit float
> significand is 23bit.

We don't need that much precision, we only have 10-bit ears.

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Gordonjcp
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