[PD-dev] pd-core lib + SIMD

[geiger]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> > It would be nice to have them consistent, because we could
> > redefine t_sample to "double" and compile a high-end version of
> > Pd. I admit that I doubt that it would really improve sound quality,
> > but its a good point for selling.
>
> Please submit patches to the tracker to do this!  It sounds like it
> makes a lot of sense, and Miller has been accepting most patches
> submitted these days.

The only problem is that I do not have a patch against the current version
of Pd, and there are some cases where I do not know for sure if the
right type would be t_sample, t_float or t_floatarg.

Günter

>
> > Like, you know, Pd sounds better because it runs with 64 bit numbers.
>
> Actually, 64-bit floats would be nice for things like timestamps.  The
> current floats aren't big enough.
>
> .hc
>
> >
> > Guenter
> >
> >>
> >> BTW, about PDa, it would make sense to make the Pd source
> >> C++-compatible,
> >> because if we can include C++ code in Pd, it's possible to introduce a
> >> fixed-point type that could be typedef'd as t_float, so that for
> >> almost
> >> all classes there would be no need to explicitly add integer code. (I
> >> haven't looked at PDa so I don't know whether it already does that...)
> >>
> >> I had made some C++-related fixes but I think that they were part of
> >> the
> >> same batch of removal of unused variables and those changes have been
> >> reverted.
> >>
> >> Maybe this ought to be a topic in the pd-dev meeting.
> >>
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