RE: [PATCH] sbc: bitstream packing optimization for encoder.

Christian Hoene
2008-12-12T15:49:08Z

> > The sound quality of the fix point implementation still remains below
> of the
> > quality of the floating point version.
> >
> > Maybe, we shall support both depending on the performance
> requirements?
>
> I think we should focus a fixed point version. There should be no need
> for floating point at all. If fixed point isn't good enough, then we
> screwed it up.
>
> And in case of embedded devices we are seriously limited with floating
> point and doing that in software just doesn't work out. And this is
> mostly not directly a performance problem. It is more a power
> consumption problem. We don't wanna have A2DP drain the battery.
>

It would help if we use 64 bit integers if a good sound is required but this
is again a problem for embedded devices.

Regards
Christian

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