Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@...> wrote:
: Sorry I have to correct my own nonsense here..;)
: 
: > It is actually (up to now it was 32-bit float, ie 8 bits mantissa and 24
: > bits precision).
: 
: The precision is in the mantissa and it's not divided like this - so ignore my 
: gibberish.. it's 32 bit float anyway! :o) (Yes MacOS knows double, but Logic 
: is using 32 bit floats. This choice could have been made because 32 bit 
: communication makes 64 bit float handling twice as slow, but I don't know if 
: the internal communication between G4 core and FPU was done in 32 bits as 
: well).

I remember reading somewhere that the G3 processor handled double
precision floats just as fast as single precision floats, but I don't know
how reputable that source was.

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