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,
Looking further ahead, the Itanium chip is incapable of native integer
multiplication, it converts to float, does the mult, and converts back.
awesome! a hardware implementation of just about all commercial audio
APIs! and it does all this in less than one cycle, i bet :)
--p