Tim Blechmann wrote:
hmmmmm.... my last year of using PD on a P4 had been *nothing* but denormal problems! I can pretty much guarentee that any complex patch I make will crash on my 1.6 Ghz laptop and run flawlessly on my 1.8Ghz AMD shuttle.
which version of pd?
Pd version 0.37.1 devel compiled 17:14:44 Sep 19 2004
have you compiled pd / externals / ladspa-plugins with -mfpmath=sse?
...afraid yes...
OPT_CFLAGS = -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
[I don't think -mmmx does anything of value here, but I just transferred over my Gentoo CFLAGS for consistancy ;-) ]
I'll have to look into these DAZ and FTZ switches, as were discussed on the LAD list. But it's really a pity that it's so difficult to get good performance out of a P4. This is why I can only *un*recommend them to anybody wanted to do audio.
Off to Ebay I go for a new laptop. When will PD have a 64bit version so I can check out one of these new AMDs? ;-)
d.