[PD] freeverb and denormals

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Nov 16 03:33:44 CET 2009


On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

> It appears that current iteration of freeverb~ is susceptible to denormals
> bug. Namely, feeding silence after sound hogs cpu (I chuckled by reading
> Pd's CPU footprint which was in excess of 400%). Adding a tiniest amount of
> DC bias inside Pd solves this but I wonder shouldn't this be simply added to
> the freeverb c code instead?

On which CPUs does this problem occur? It seems both annoying and a good 
excuse to slow down programmes on CPUs that don't have the problem (?).

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