New subject: Searching information about: denomals HUGE NaN Inf

11 May 2007

Quoting Steven Chamberlain &lt;steven(a)pyro.eu.org&gt;rg>:

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  audio-mobster wrote:
  can someone tell me where I get infomation about:
denomals HUGE NaN  Inf?

 Description of denormals etc., and how they're represented in memory:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Single-precision_32_bit

 As for tackling denormal issues:
 http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2003-August/004581.html
 http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2004-June/008739.html

 The FLUSH_TO_ZERO(x) macro can be seen used in TAP's tap_utils.h 
The DAZ bit in the processor is often more efficient.

See:
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/microprocessors/ia32/pent…

For a basic introduction to what denormals are and how they affect the life
of music production:  http://ardour.org/node/139

 Sampo

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