24 May
2003
24 May
'03
9:57 p.m.
Hi Derek, list,
derek@x-i.net schrieb:
has a lot to do with signals which are very near zero, but not quite. johannes taelman told me the technical name for this, but i have forgotten it... "denormal numbers", maybe ....
Yup, that was what I was talking about at pdStaminee. I don't think it explains 100% of the cpu load variations. CPU cache management decisions may be another cause.
Here's an overview of denormal handling: http://www.musicdsp.org/files/denormal.pdf
and http://phonophunk.phreakin.com/p4denormal.html
mvg, j#|@