[PD] P4 optimisation [for Linux?]

[guenter geiger]

I just always add a noise~ to critical sections.
I think jMax actually detects these denormalized values in some way.
This might probably help to find the missing problematic spots and
handle it inplace with the PD_BADFLOAT macro.

Guenter

On Sat, 24 May 2003, Johannes Taelman wrote:

> 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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