Re: Missing information in the Web Audio spec

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> Ah, thanks, I should have remembered that. Then resolving ISSUE-24 will
>> require specification of a processing model that handles cycles. I would
>> like resolving that to be quite high priority as it will have significant
>> impact on the architecture of any implementation.
>>
>
> [Two things I'm particularly curious about: how to handle cycles that
> don't contain a DelayNode
>

In signal processing terms this is undefined or non-sensical.



> , and how to handle a cycle containing a DelayNode with very small
> delayTime, e.g. a single sample.]
>

This is well defined in signal processing.  In fact many common filters
(IIR filters such as the biquad) are implemented this way.



>
> Rob
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