From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE : libsndfile-ocaml alpha
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 09:54:43 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070101095443.4ac5275f.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1167591914.5340.1.camel@rosella.wigram>
skaller wrote:
> > Since it is already possible to read Ocaml floats (which are normalised
> > to the range [-1.0, 1.0]) why would anyone want to ready any other data
> > type?
>
> Performance or space issues?
It depends on what is being done. For any signal processing algorithms,
anything other than floats normalised to [-1.0, 1.0] is a huge pain in
the neck. Any performance increases that might be acheived using ints
would be sqandered by the extra processing required to deal with scaling
issues and Ocaml's 31 bit floats.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-31 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-22 4:54 Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-27 9:32 ` [Caml-list] " Vu Ngoc San
2006-12-27 10:10 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-27 10:42 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-30 21:07 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-31 3:31 ` skaller
2006-12-31 4:23 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-12-31 11:08 ` Richard Jones
2006-12-31 22:51 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-01 14:53 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2007-01-01 19:58 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 0:51 ` skaller
2007-01-02 1:14 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 5:26 ` Erick Tryzelaar
2007-01-02 5:39 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
[not found] ` <1167765505.5341.12.camel@rosella.wigram>
2007-01-02 22:37 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 23:46 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-01-03 1:59 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2007-01-03 2:49 ` Markus Mottl
2007-01-02 7:47 ` Christoph Bauer
2006-12-31 19:05 ` skaller
2006-12-31 22:54 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2007-01-02 10:56 ` Vu Ngoc San
2007-01-02 11:27 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-01-02 19:39 ` David Baelde
2007-01-02 23:04 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
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