16 Sep
2002
16 Sep
'02
3:51 p.m.
Paul Davis wrote:
i thought this was pretty insightful. vst-plugins has
had a little
debate over whether or not VST should provide an integer sample
format. actually, not much of a debate. one person suggested it,
everybody else jumped on him. this post, however, is the most
detailed on why you should forget about thinking of float arithmetic
as slower than integer ...
thanks paul, very interesting read indeed.
apropos, does somebody have pointers to enlightening resources,
code examples, anything about using 3Dnow/SSE/AltiVec with the gcc
suite? (please don't direct me to developer.intel.com, it's bloat
with a capital b).
tim