[PD] P4 optimisation [for Linux?]
Johannes Taelman
Johannes.Taelman at rug.ac.be
Sat May 24 21:57:45 CEST 2003
Hi Derek, list,
> derek at x-i.net schrieb:
>
> > has a lot to do with signals which are very near zero, but not quite.
> > johannes taelman told me the technical name for this, but i have
> > forgotten it... "denormal numbers", maybe ....
Yup, that was what I was talking about at pdStaminee. I don't think it
explains 100% of the cpu load variations. CPU cache management decisions
may be another cause.
Here's an overview of denormal handling:
http://www.musicdsp.org/files/denormal.pdf
and
http://phonophunk.phreakin.com/p4denormal.html
mvg,
j#|@
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