Rapicorn

We have just released Beast version 0.11.0: Beast 0.11.0 Announcement The announcement gives a high level overview of the changes (Soundfont support, multi threaded signal processing, new packaging, etc) and links to all the details like NEWS, tarballs, the binary package and shortlogs. In this post, I’d like to extend a bit on where we’re [...]

The last update has been a while, so with the new year around the corner and sitting in c-base @ 33c3, I’ll do my best to sum up what’s been going on in Rapicorn and Beast development since the last releases. Now both projects make use of extended instruction sets (SIMD) that have been present [...]

I’ve spent the last week setting up Rapicorn and Beast with travis-ci.org, a free continuous integration service for Github. Since travis is only available for Github, this means the Beast Git repository (hosted on git.gnome.org) had to be moved ... [More] (cloned) to Github. Luckily, Git allows pushing to mutiple remotes: git remote add all [email protected]:tim-janik/beast.git git [...] [Less]

Trying to keep it up, here’s an update on recent developments in Rapicorn and Beast. Git Branches For now, Rapicorn and Beast are using Git branches the following way: Topic branches are created for each change. Where possible, commits should compile and pass all tests (i.e. pass make check installcheck). Once completed, topic branches are [...]

A good while ago at a conference, I got into a debate over the usefulness of TLS (thread-local storage of variables) in performance critical code. Allegedly TLS should be too slow for practical uses, especially for shared libraries. TLS can be quite ... [More] useful for context sensitive APIs, here’s a simple example: push_default_background (COLOR_BLUE); auto w [...] [Less]

Giving in to persistent nagging from Stephen and Stefan about progress updates (thanks guys), I’ll cherry pick some of the branches recently merged into Rapicorn devel for this post. We’ll see if I can keep posting updates more regularly in the future… 😉 Interactive Examples Following an idea Pippin showed me for his FOSDEM talk, [...]