Hi Istvan,

Thanks for your reply.  I think that the changes are not difficult to
do and I don't consider it a major change.  Also, it is not just 32
and 64 that is the only issue, but also debug and release versions, as
well as general project tidiness. Since the burden would be on me and
me alone to move the folders around and also to redo the build file(s)
to reflect that, would you find it hindered your work enough that the
reorganized directories would be less useful than without the change?

Thanks,
steven



On 11/7/05, Istvan Varga <istvan_v@fibermail.hu> wrote:
> Michael Gogins wrote:
>
> > How much speed are you talking about here?
> >
> > Have you tried using 64 bits and found it too slow? Or are you guessing?
>
> The difference depends on the type of operations being performed,
> and possibly also the availability of special CPU instructions
> (SSE etc.) for the selected floating point type. Actually, as long
> as you are only using 387 instructions, everything is calculated
> with 80 bits of precision internally, and the use of floats or
> doubles only affects memory loads and stores. Thus, some code will
> run at about the same speed, while in other cases there may be
> a significant slowdown (I found that FFT, for example, is almost
> twice as slow with doubles on my machine). Also, the increased
> memory usage may be an issue sometimes (e.g. loading many large
> samples with GEN01).
> While support for 32 bit floats may still be worth keeping, I am
> not sure if making major changes to the build system only to allow
> building with both types at the same time in the same source tree
> is worth the effort.
>
>
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