[Speex-dev] Re: gcc-4.1: svn 10958 fix point build fails

Jean-Marc Valin jean-marc.valin at usherbrooke.ca
Wed Mar 1 20:03:35 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 21:54 -0500, sean wrote:
> Ah yes. It was late. sorry.
> 
> I assume fixed point will be faster. Do 64 bit machines ( 
> amd64) make a difference ( greater accuracy) ? 

Actually, floating-point will be faster on any non-antique x86 machine.
amd64 should also help, not because of accuracy (it's the same), but
because the x86-64 ISA has 16 SSE registers.

	Jean-Marc


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