9 May
2007
9 May
'07
11:47 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:51 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
On 5/9/07, Dave Robillard
<drobilla(a)connect.carleton.ca> wrote:
The only thing I can think of is if a plugin is doing resampley things
and works with wav files. If your sample rate is 48000/44100 and your
wav file is 44100.. well, you know /something/ you wouldn't know if it
was a double I guess. I can't think of any case where that 'something'
would actually be useful though, it's always going to get converted to a
double anyway.
Fons?
-DR-
Regarding the one sensible thing you /have/ said:
is sample rate as a
double sufficient, or is there a good reason for numerator/denominator
(that outweighs the PITA for the plugin author)?
I'll play "dumb user" on this one...
Are there useful sample rates that can be expressed more accurately
with a pair of 32-bit integers than by a double?
If so, programmers who don't care about the extra accuracy could
presumably convert the ratio to a double in one line of code (at the
cost of a single division operation). That does not seem excessive,
assuming there are real-world examples where the extra accuracy
would help. Are there any?