Using shorts instead of floats

[hodgesmr]

Novocaine automatically converts from shorts to floats. Perhaps create a mechanism to pass back the raw shorts instead? This would probably require making some of the properties not readonly and creating a new input / output blocks that take shorts.

[alexbw]

Is there a specific use-case where the typecasting is producing undesirable performance hits?

[hodgesmr]

Aren't there concerns with converting from float to short? Loss of precision?

[alexbw]

If the data is provided as floating point from the mic, Novocaine uses that. So, I think floats are an optimal common format.