[music-dsp] Re: DSP Hardware and Java ? was: Why Mostly Motorola

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:41:50 +0000, Toto Takehara wrote:
> Well It's only slow runing as a real time interpreted language on other OS' 
> I think. I think it can be made fast if the code can be compiled directly 
> into assembly of a specific DSP chip by its SDK, No?

Not if its real Java, the spec places some unfortunate constraints on
floating point arithmetic[1].

- Steve

[1] "How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere",
    http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf