I extracted the YT link from this Stanford lecture below, that guy has some points:
https://youtu.be/aP0Y1uAA-2Y Best, Steffan > On 11. Apr 2023, at 15:45, Julien Brulé <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/04/2023 15:09, Jerry Evans wrote: >> Having been badly burned by rubbish Intel math hardware back in the day*, I >> was fascinated to more latterly come across this set of related resources: >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__web.stanford.edu_class_ee380_Abstracts_170201.html&d=DwICaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=TRvFbpof3kTa2q5hdjI2hccynPix7hNL2n0I6DmlDy0&m=-Kn71eXIpKloARhvNgZWAbdJVCmCOr158TDTrutp3yu-qm1lwIVrN6fg-cLut2jB&s=7k4APvkpMu1OX2rgmJOovN6FO1HdmtQsLdgF0zbZ9gI&e= >> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_libcg_bfp&d=DwICaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=TRvFbpof3kTa2q5hdjI2hccynPix7hNL2n0I6DmlDy0&m=-Kn71eXIpKloARhvNgZWAbdJVCmCOr158TDTrutp3yu-qm1lwIVrN6fg-cLut2jB&s=2SBZjna2q0YhnJ2M5bAC-9lRpDTqmlB9q02QGIQo1Tc&e= >> . >> On the subject of plugins setting FPU flags and modes. All I can say is yak. >> A terrible idea as, IIRC, even changing modes was slow. And a guarantee of >> absolutely zero. >> FPU modality (and denormal avoidance/mitigation) is precisely the kind of >> thing that should be specified by the host to downstream processors, just >> like bit depth, sample rate and buffer sizes. >> * Pentium 4 anyone? Cry me a river. > boul blip blop?
