13 Jan
2004
13 Jan
'04
4:04 p.m.
Hi Rob,
rscanning@eircom.net wrote:
processors: intel or amd - pentuim or athlon, celron etc.?
Be aware that PD has some unresolved issues with the P4 "denormal bug", which causes massive CPU usage when floating point numbers get closer and closer to infinitely small [i.e. during reverb or delay tails, etc].
Miller claims that the problem has been fixed in PD 0.37, but I find that certain objects retain this behavior. Try running a decaying feedback loop through a [hip~ 5], for example, to see it in action.
If I were to buy another computer, I would avoid a P4 for that reason.
best, Derek
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