[PD-dev] denormals: svf, freeverb (was Re: [PD] bug in freeverb???)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:

>>> pd devel_0_39 did also set the DAZ/FTZ flags, which affect
>>> the denormal
>>> handling on the sse unit, but that was never merged into
>>> vanilla pd
>>
>> I see there's a new pd_devel branch. I should check it out.
>
> i doubt, that the new pd_devel branch shares anything with the old
> pd_devel except for the name ...
> also, please note that daz/ftz only deal with the behavior of the sse
> unit ... if your external is compiled to use the fpu, you will still  
> see
> performance issues, when denormal numbers occur

Yeah, it was a mistake on our part to name it pd-devel, since its not  
the same thing.  We should have called the pd-devel/0.41.4 branch  
something like "gui-rewrite", since it does not share anything with  
earlier pd-devel branches.

.hc


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