Re: long double data type
Re: long double data type
- Subject: Re: long double data type
- From: tahome izwah <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:01:56 +0200
2010/6/16 Dominik Peklo <email@hidden>:
>
> Personally, I would take fixed point over floating point any day. In audio, there's no need for extended dynamic range afforded by exponent. The range of interest is only 0dBFS and down. 32b float wastes 8b on exponent, extending dynamic range by 256dB over the 144dB afforded by mantissa.
If you're dealing with simple things like filters: yes. Try this with
highly recursive algorithms and you'll end up spending more time
re-scaling than actually doing calculations. I think this really
depends a lot on the application and cannot be stated in such a
general way.
--th
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