[asterisk-users] The High Performance Echo Canceller (HPEC)

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 6:00 pm, shadowym wrote:
> Think of what you just said.  You just said a "Central Processing Unit" is
> an "Application Specific Integrated Circuit".
>
> If you say so.....LOL!

Do you disagree that a CPU is not an integrated circuit specialized in dealing 
with the application of computing?

Honestly, you're arguing against people who are in the electronics design and 
telecommunications industries...  I myself have been in electronics design 
for over a decade, and others here have similar telecommunications 
experience.  "CPUs can't do EC well" is just a garbage CS-freshman statement.  
We've pointed out examples of where general CPUs are doing heavy DSP work and 
you sit there with your fingers in your ears, saying "la la la la la... can't 
hear you!"

Honestly man, look around and try to see that there are others who know what 
they're talking about.  general-purpose CPUs *can* do signal processing, and 
modern CPUs have elements which make them VERY DSP like... to the point where 
the bottleneck isn't (and hasn't for a while now) been the CPU processing 
capability; it's been in keeping it fed with data to keep it from stalling, 
and in keeping its FPU busy without stalling out its general processing 
abilities.

-A.