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denorm


Trond Lossius
Apr 07 2006 | 11:06 am

Hi,

I got some feedback from a user of one of my externals
(tl.crossover4~) that he is experiencing occasional bursts in CPU
usage. It might be that this is due to some denorm issues in the code
of the externals. I don’t have any experience with this, so I am
wondering if there are some suggestions about what to do with it, or
sample codes, possibly from other open-sourced 3rd party externals,
that I could look into.

Thanks,
Trond


Timothy Place
Apr 07 2006 | 12:34 pm

Hi Trond,

Here is an example of code calling a function that fixes denormals from ttblue:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/ttblue/trunk/ttblue/d splib/tt_dcblock.h?r1=31&r2=39

And the definition of that function is at line 125 in this file:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/ttblue/trunk/ttblue/d splib/tt_audio_base.h?annotate=49

Because the function is in the class definition itself it will automatically be inlined by the compiler so you don’t incur a cpu hit for calling the function. Basically it is adding and subtracting a small number such that the round-off error makes the number that is returned no longer denormalled.

I hope this is useful…
-Tim


Trond Lossius
Apr 07 2006 | 12:38 pm

Absolutely!

Thanks,
Trond


Timothy Place
Apr 07 2006 | 2:55 pm

I forgot to include this piece of information (which is defined in the base cpp file):

const double tt_audio_base::anti_denormal_value = 1e-18;

best,
Tim

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