From: David Brown <dlbrown@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Question for the folks who designed Ada95
Date: 1999/04/30
Date: 1999-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <osk8uujaja.fsf@opus.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 925410775.940.21@news.remarQ.com
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:32:55 GMT, fraser@synopsys.com (Fraser Wilson) said:
> Here's a question: has anyone ever used a modular type which was not
> a power of 2, and lived to tell the tale? What was the context?
DSP algorithms. Filters can be all sorts of sizes. The modulus type
makes it easy to walk through the buffer by just adding.
Unfortunately, they aren't dynamic, so if you need a filter that can
work with dynamically sized filters, they don't work anyway.
Dave Brown
dlbrown@acm.org
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1999-04-26 0:00 Question for the folks who designed Ada95 Corey Ashford
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-04-30 0:00 ` David Brown [this message]
1999-04-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-27 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Bill Ghrist
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-04-28 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Brian Hanson
1999-04-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1999-04-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Question for the folks who designed Ad David Kristola
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Paul Duquennoy
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Question for the folks who designed Ada95 Aidan Skinner
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
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