On Sunday 27 September 2009 23:09:02 David McClain wrote:
> ... remember too, in signal and image processing applications,
> converting to raw machine integers and plowing ahead is often
> counterproductive.
>
> Rather we need saturating arithmetic to avoid abrupt transitions on
> overflow conditions, or modulo addressing. Neither of these is native
> to SSM, and have to be synthesized. DSP chips on the other hand almost
> always offer these variations implicitly or explicitly.

Sure. That does not change the fact that unnecessarily boxing these primitive 
types severely degrades performance.

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Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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