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Originally Posted by seancostello  How many have run the exact same code as the flagship unit?
The PCM96 runs floating point C++. So do PCs and Macs. Why would Lexicon change the code for such a high end plugin?
The original 224 ran about 100 instructions per sample, the 224XL around 128. The 480L had 192 instructions per sample, IIRC. Mind you, these were special purpose processors, that had some nifty tricks. For example, the memory management was designed in such a way that you didn't need to manually update the delay buffer pointers. Still, these cycle counts suggest algorithms that could safely run at a few percent of the cycles in a modern CPU, even before undergoing extensive SIMD optimization. |
sean, big thanks for sharing your knowledge around here!
this hardware-software-thinking concerning digital processors HAS to end
-b