Re: Shouldn't pd64 be distributed as default Pd?

Wasn’t there an idea to toggle and choose the precision in the settings? On
startup of course…

One way or another, double precision could and should be officially
distributed as stable at this time, right?

On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 14:22 Christof Ressi <[email protected]> wrote:

> First we'd have to recompile and upload all existing externals. Then we
> have to check if they all actually work correctly! (Some external
> authors were a bit sloppy and just used 'float' instead of 't_float'.)
>
> BTW, did anyone to any benchmarks? Double precision floats take up twice
> as much register space as single precision floats, which affects
> vectorization. For example, a 256-bit AVX register can hold 8 floats,
> but only 4 doubles.
>
> I'm not against double-precision Pd per se, but it's not a trivial change!
>
> Christof
>
> On 4/23/2026 9:13 AM, Peter P. wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > what about switching the default distribution of Pd, as for example on
> > https://msp.ucsd.edu/
> > https://puredata.info/downloads/pure-data
> > to pd64? Especially in a teaching context as for beginners it would be
> > great to get rid of the interpolation noise of tabread4~ by default.
> >
> > Looking forward to all comments,
> > best, P
> >
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