On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:44:39PM -0400, Oleg wrote: > What is the point of having an integer-based implementation? AFAIK most > modern CPUs have SIMD instructions for single-precision floats (32 bit), so, > say, doing inner product, etc. on integer arrays may even be slower than > doing it on float arrays. Firstly, most embedded CPUs don't have onboard FPU's, because they simply don't need them. Secondly, most hardware MP3 players don't even have general purpose CPUs in them, they use a special MP3 decoder chip. -rob
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