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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