Re: [linux-audio-dev] Another Annoying "How Do I Get Started" Question

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[Greg Berchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
| Steve Harris wrote:
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| >I don't understand the hardware issues, but as the filter coefficent 
| >appraoches 0.0f the number of cycles taken to multiply it goes up 
| 
| This confuses me.  In reading the documentation for the FPU on the
| Athlon,
| they state that it can perform two pipelined double precision floating
| point multiplies per cycle.  They do not mention any changes in this
| performance that is dependent upon the values of the numbers to be
| multiplied.
| 

http://www.smartelectronix.com/musicdsp/text/other001.txt

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