[PD] P4 optimisation [for Linux?]

[derek holzer]

Johannes, Olaf, Guenter....

thanks for these explanations. according to the very informative docs 
that Johannes sent, Intel doesn't consider this denormal bug to be their 
problem, and expect that software manufacturers will code around it.

also, looking at Olaf's patches, they make sense, but i lack the 
programming know-how to put them in the "critical spots".

so my question: could we "officially" incorperate these patches to fix 
the denormal problem into the PD release? such patches would have no 
detrimental effect on other processors/operating systems, right? perhaps 
they would even improve performance of other processors, since denormal 
numbers must eat CPU time of any machine to calculate, not just P4s.

best,
derek

Johannes Taelman wrote:

>Here's an overview of denormal handling:
>http://www.musicdsp.org/files/denormal.pdf
>
>and
>http://phonophunk.phreakin.com/p4denormal.html
>  
>