> WRT the last paragraph of your mail below, normative determinism would make
> conformance-testing a breeze too : decoders producing the right sound file
> (byte for byte) for every single test orc-sco pair would pass, otherwise they
> would fail.
Note that the FDIS is very careful not to use the words "IEEE Standard
Floating Point" -- I was under the impression that this was done on
purpose, so that DSP chips that have non-standard 32-bit floating point
ALU's could do compliant decoders, as well as SIMD units on x86 processors
that may not be exactly implementing IEEE floating point. Given that
property of the standard, byte-by-byte accuracy isn't going to work for
compliance testing ...
--jl
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