29 Nov
2007
29 Nov
'07
11:54 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 03:15 +0100, David Olofson wrote:
On Friday 30 November 2007, Dave Robillard wrote:
[...]
The current version of LV2 MIDI just uses double. All the precision you
could ask for, or an insane range if you'd prefer. It's a bit big
maybe, but hey, why not?
We could use float I guess to save a bit of space, but I definitely
prefer floating point. Fixed point is just a PITA, modern CPUs are much
faster at FP anyway, why bother?
-DR-
I do agree we should not be adding crufty
features to support
massive buffers, if that's what you mean. It's easier to just split
the cycle anyway.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Sure, one *could* have a use for
really huge buffers (say, running large FFTs without intermediate
buffering), but to me, that seems too far out that one should have
everyone deal with 32:32 event timestamps for that reason alone.