19 Dec
2002
19 Dec
'02
4:36 p.m.
On Thursday 19 December 2002 21.17, Steve Harris wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:15:26 +0100, David Olofson
wrote:
Yeah - and I'm not even sure I'm going to do much integer stuff in
Audiality from now on, *despite* scalability being a major priority.
Performance isn't really a problem until you're on old Pentium
processors - and then you can't really use Audiality anyway, because
rendering a few sounds takes "ages".
The only other audio format that could be of interest for XAP could
be double, but I think that can wait until people actually start
complaining about float being insufficient. :-)
Double *controls* might actually be useful in some cases, though.
Song position demonstrates the weakness of float, but the question is
if that applies to many other things.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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They actually make *more* sence as an audio
format, since there,
it can have a real effect on performance. That's only really
relevant for old or low end hardware, though. (That's why
Audiality does it - but only in the real time synth. I'm simply
not motivated enough to implement the off-line oscillators in
fixed point... *heh*)
Right, but on current (PIV and AthlonXP) float is slightly faster,
and significantly so on the next generation Intel chips.