[linux-audio-dev] Fixed vs. floating point

[Georg Holzmann]

Hallo!

> I am in the early planning stage of an audio processing application and I
> have come to the point of making the choice between floating point or fixed
> point (signed 2's complement) processing.
> What do you think is better, and why? Why does jack use floating point? Why
it depends of course on the hardware: if you write e.g. your application 
for PDAs or Mobile Phones, then you will have to use fixed point (at 
least for now) ...

LG
Georg