More than that - I'm hoping to look at Katja's version and adopt the changes, whether or not there turns out to be a set of formatted diffs available anywhere...
cheers M On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:34:54PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote: > One other question: would you accept patches for Pd Vanilla that make it > _possible_ to compile with t_float at double-precision (something Pd Vanilla > cannot currently do)? That would give the Pd Vanilla user the option to > compile to double-precision if they wish, which IIUC is the whole point of > t_float in the first place. (Plus Vanilla users would get the small > performance increase in the relevant tilde classes.) > > You'd still compile, distribute, and support Vanilla for t_float at > single-precision. Same for external developers. > > -Jonathan On Monday, February 2, 2015 11:49 AM, Miller Puckette > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I've heard is that the 64-bit instruction set has wider bit fields > for specifying registers, so that you can have many more of them. (The > 386 had two or three I think; the 64 bit machines have dozens, depending > how you count.) So one saves steps reading and writing to/from memory. > > OTOH, since all pointers have to be 64 bits, one uses more memory as a whole, > perhaps by a factor of 1.5 or so - I don't see why, given that memory is > "the main bottleneck" most of the time, this could possibly be consistent > with 64-bit architectures being faster. So basically I don't understand > what's really going on. > > cheers > Miller > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +0000, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > Hi Miller,What do you think is causing that performance increase on the > > version of Pd that is compiled for the 64-bit architecture? > > -Jonathan > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
