Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le ven 05/11/2004 à 03:12, Chipzz a écrit :
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, [utf-8] Danilo Å egan wrote:
> 
> > From: "[utf-8] Danilo Å egan" <danilo gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: Proposal: replacing esound with polypaudio in 2.10
> >
> > Today at 17:46, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > On Maw, 2004-11-02 at 00:27, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > >> You don't know libsamplerate, do you? libsamplerate provides multiple
> > >> resampling implementations. While all are fp, one does probably more
> > >> or less in fp what esd does in integer. (I haven't looked at the
> > >> resampling code of esound, I must admit, but it probably isn't much
> > >> worse than libsamplerate's SRC_ZERO_ORDER_HOLD.)
> > >
> > > In floating point they are *useless* on many platforms. You are talking
> > > 500 times slower than integer or worse if they are trapping to emulation
> > > of FPU units.
> >
> > I see the point Alan is trying to make, but is this relevant for Gnome
> > adoption?  I mean, on what machines is Gnome (especially 2.10)
> > actually usable which are not equipped with a FPU?
> 
> Just an uneducated guess, but do all PDA's have a (good) FPU?

My iPaq does only integer maths.

	Xav