[vorbis-dev] Optimization and doubles vs. floats

[Monty]

> 
> >The mdct will be ok using floats. Don't know if all the rest of vorbis likes
> >floats, though.
> 
>   Well, that is sort of what I'm wondering. 

At this point, all of Vorbis will do just fine on floats.  Only the LSP used 
to require the exponent headroom, and I replaced that code with a new 
algorithm that has no such sensitivity.

Now that floats provide plenty of room, I'm thinking that taking the whole 
sourcebase to float might be useful to relieve pressure on the cache 
(regardless of relative FPU performance).  Segher, do you concur?

Monty

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