[PD] denormals on intel celeron

shift8 shift8 at digitrash.com
Tue Aug 23 20:55:26 CEST 2005


thanks - i'll give that a try.

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:29 +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > hi all - i'm having really bad denormal problems on a intel celeron
> > 2.4ghz.  pd is from cvs aug 8th.  looked around and found PD_BADFLOAT
> > and PD_BIGORSMALL.  on a lark i defined them and rebuilt, and even
> > though it solved it for a while, but no - i'm still having the same
> > problem.  looked around some more and found those only appear in
> > m_pd.h... anyone know what i can do to fix this?  
> 1. compile with -mfpmath=sse -msse (the sse unit is much better handling
> denormals)
> 
> 2. use devel_0_39. it includes code to switch on hardware DAZ (Denormals
> Are Zero) on cpus supporting sse2
> 
> hope this helps ... t
> 
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