[PD] what's the deal with [utime] object?

[Matt Barber]

It would change some pretty major things in vanilla, too. For instance,
[phasor~], [osc~], and [tabosc4~] all depend on a bit-manipulation trick to
wrap phase, which won't work with doubles. I'm not sure if the output is
any different, but it does save the per-sample bounds check and is
theoretically faster.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <
pd-list at lists.iem.at> wrote:

> > we should have switched to doubles long ago.
>
> According to katja, that would trigger a zombie apocalypse in external
> land.
> And the only way to tell the zombies from the survivors would be to...
> *gulp*...
>
> actually read external library code.
>
> Personally, I'd rather get eaten by a zombie than do that.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:31 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig <
> zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>
>
> On 02/27/2016 09:55 AM, William Huston wrote:
> > I really wish Pd had a 32 bit integer data type for counters, and other
> > places where integers are appropriate.
>
> actually i strongly disagree: i think it is one of Pd's killer features
> to have a single numeric type.
>
> the only problem is that the actually used numeric type (single
> precision floating point) is rather limited.
> we should have switched to doubles long ago.
>
> gfmdsar
>
> IOhannes
>
>
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