[linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

[Tim Blechmann]

> I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to
> see it ;-)
>  It's pretty simple, just OR the bits of the exponent together which
>  gives either
> 0 (denormal) or 1, typecast that to float, and then multiply the
> original float by that (0.0 or 1.0).  Voila, no branch, but it is
> messy looking ;-)

there is one problem ... if you multiply the denormal number with the 1
or 0, you will probably have one denormal operation on the cpu instead
of a branch ... i don't know, that's worse ...
but definitely, some benchmarks would be useful for any denormal
flushing algorithm...

cheers...

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