Tim Blechmann wrote: there are some ways to avoid denormals ... one of them is using the simd
instructions that are said to help ... i'm still experiencing denormal problems with steve harris's ladspa plugins ...
Tom Szilagyi is going through some serious work on his TAP plugins for exactly the same reason. He never tested them on Pentium before.
if you are planing to buy a new processor for audio, stay away from intel... btw, i don't know if this makes sense, but when used a suse linux on my machine a year ago, i could use some tools, that i can't use on my gentoo system any more (e.g. steve harris's flanger) i don't know what might cause that (it's not related to a difference in compilation ... i tried the same binaries) maybe suse is doing some fancy stuff with their glibc ... i'm still confused by that...
What is SuSE's exact position on licenses? Not to open this box one more time for theoretical squabbling, but I wonder if they have cribbed something from the Intel compiler?
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