Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms
On Thursday 29 August 2002 01:35 am, Rob Weir wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, I somehow missed the fact that we were talking about portable players.
Oleg
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