[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Dec 16 21:28:07 UTC 2002


>>>about arithmetic: float operations, as you know, introduce
>>>round-off error. integers can be used in accumulators with
>>>much less inconvenience.
>>
>>sorry, its just wrong.
>
>prove it.

sorry, when i said this, i meant something more like:

       "sorry, its just not right to force integral values".

in the timeline work i've done for ardour, rounding errors are never
an issue because there is no accumulator used outside of a single
measure's distance.

--p



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