[PlanetCCRMA] Pentium-4 and denormal numbers on planetccrma

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 29 11:35:01 2005


On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:46:57 -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Also, we could suggest a --noisy option to be added to jackd so _it_
> takes care of inserting noise in all inputs, warding us from evil
> denormals on intel cpus :-) 

Noise is not the universal panacea unfortunatly, for some algorithms
(non/low feedback ones) replacing zero with a low amplitude DC offset is
better.

- Steve