On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:38:46 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > Yeah - but not as cheap as generating occasional spikes, a tone or > maybe even white noise, to prevent the generation of denormals in the > first place. > > Besides, if you *get* a denormal to kill, it has to come from > somewhere. Catching them this late may not avoid all denormal > processing, unless you do this check after every single FP operation. > You might get away with doing double processing and checking for > float denormals, but I don't think that would be totally safe.
I use that in ineer loops, the denormals are generated by filters. A tone or noise probably would be faster, yes. - Steve
