On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:18 PM, chris clepper wrote:
On 12/16/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
-fPIC is on by default on Mac OS X, so that's easy. Having 64-bit floats is quite nice on the interface side because it means you can have large integers in Pd, like timestamps.
The 64 bit buzzword refers to memory addressing; double precision floats are different than 64 bit CPUs or applications. FPUs have used 64 bit floats for years regardless of their addressing capabilities.
So does that mean it would be possible to make Pd use 64-bit floats on all CPUs without a major performance hit?
.hc
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