as stated before in this thread, denormals can slow down the computation on the fpu. the problem is not as big, when compiling the binary to use the sse unit, though (btw, this is the default, when compiling for x86_64)
Indeed, but externals that run a little slow are better than those that crash PD in the middle of a performance! This is why I'm trying to find a way of fixing the externals that suffer from this. moog~ is another! Meanwhile, I've rolled back to the old svf~ external so that the metastudio drumsynths don't crash. I had a very successful gig last night as a result..
Who wrote the old svf~?
pd devel_0_39 did also set the DAZ/FTZ flags, which affect the denormal handling on the sse unit, but that was never merged into vanilla pd
I see there's a new pd_devel branch. I should check it out.
Vest, Ed
hth, tim
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