[LAD] Denormals / subnormals (again)

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Tue Jan 3 01:51:35 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:22:11AM +0000, Carl Hetherington wrote:

> I have been looking into ye olde denormal problem a little, lately.  
> Particularly with respect to Ardour and plugins.  I've assembled what I  
> believe to be a coherent statement of what is going on, but I'd very much 
> appreciate any corrections and clarifications that anyone can offer.
> ...
> Any comments?

I haven't seen a single case where it wasn't easy to avoid denormals.
All it takes is some small offsets at strategic places in your code.
Usually that amounts to very few, and they are easy to spot if you
understand the code.

Ciao,

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FA

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