On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:22:41AM +0000, Neil Klepeis wrote: > Hi, > > I compiled the CMT plugins with the g++ options -msse2 and -march=i686 > and the freeverb denormals problem (seen with ardour on a dual Xeon > machine) seems to be _almost_ entirely fixed. Also, I don't see any > weird problems with the ardour host (yet :). But, I still see the DSP > load increasing from around 5% to about 15%, although now it is _much_ > farther along in the tails of the reverb than before and I get _zero_ > xruns. [before, the DSP shot up to 60-90% with tons of xruns and > usually the zombification of ardour].
right, with SSE you still get denormals, they just cost less. I've posted some code in the past that turns of denormal handling in SSE. - Steve
