3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
6:40 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
I'm not entirely sure ...
Thanks
Carl
On 01/02/2012 07:22 PM, Carl Hetherington wrote:
It does indeed help, in some cases; thanks for pointing that out.
Current results are somewhat haphazardly compiled at
http://carlh.net/software/denormals/
If you compile your code (e.g. a plugin) without
-msse and -mfpmath=sse
on the GCC command line you get *no* protection from denormals from the
CPU. If they occur in your code, they will be very much slower than
-ffast-math doesn't work? If you compile
your code with -msse and -mfpmath=sse, you have Ardour's
protection from denormals. If the user's CPU supports it, you get there
is no significant slowdown with denormals using this mode. However CPU
support is "some later processors with SSE2", according to Intel.
Doesn't that translate to something like: Pentium 4, Pentium M, or Later.