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Question: Every time I read the specs for "modern" C++11/14/17/[whatever] www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA I can't help it man. I feel very grateful to have WDL in my tool-set. What's your take on C++1y? I'm sure there are some benefits but I haven't seen the enlightenment yet. For me the trade-offs of the additional complexity versus what you can actually Asked by gio (94.66.5.x) on December 26 2013, 8:22am Reply on December 28 2013, 3:25pm: I'm very lazy, and don't like having to target a particular version of a given development toolchain, so modern language revisions are out. Having said that, from what I've read, there isn't much there I really care about. Comment... Question: Will the inevitable v5.0 be as huge as v4.0 or you'll choose to do a smoother transition this time? Please, don't reveal dates and features we want to be a surprise when the time comes. And one more question: What new things have you learnt during REAPER's development? Software related but not necessarily technical things. Asked by gio (94.66.5.x) on December 26 2013, 6:45am Reply on December 28 2013, 3:24pm: Hard to say, probably will be less of a big jump (the long release cycle isn't really fun). Things I've learned? I dunno, lots of little stuff... Here's one: %2 and i&1 produce different code if i is a signed int. Comment... Question: Merry Xmas, from the other side of the planet. eel_strings was something I liked a lot. I haven't dig it thoroughly yet. Is it possible to use different string storage for the case I use plain good C? (if I'm not wrong I saw somewhere WDL_FastString... didn't spend much time so excuse me if I'm totally out of context, etc) Thank you, Mr Awesome. Asked by gio (94.66.5.x) on December 25 2013, 4:10pm Reply on December 28 2013, 3:22pm: Yeah, it is WDL_FastString based for storage... you could update it to be C only, but it's not really worth it for me to bother. Don't get too invested in the current mode though, some big EEL changes are coming that make it a lot more flexible and work quite a bit better... Comment... Question: Merry Xmas, Justin! Please help the guy... forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=132849 Asked by EvilDragon (5.43.168.x) on December 25 2013, 9:09am Reply on December 28 2013, 3:22pm: If he posted any useful information (crash reports, etc), I'd try, but it doesn't seem he really wants his problems solved, just wants to talk. Comment... Question: You see Spotify's tribute to Winamp? spotiamp.com/ Asked by MrTr0n (68.40.203.x) on December 23 2013, 6:06pm Reply on December 28 2013, 3:20pm: Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Comment... Question: I've made my own VST host,. It works with every single plugin, except Slate VCC and FG-X (meters not working etc.). What could be the reason ??? Do these plugins require special treatment. Thanks in advance!!!! Asked by Zabukowski (95.176.187.x) on December 22 2013, 7:32pm Reply on December 23 2013, 4:35pm: No idea on these in particular, but there are often a lot of little details that are poorly documented... :/ Comment... Question: Are you going to mine some bit coin derivative coins? it's fun give it a go! Asked by BigPoopa (172.56.11.x) on December 20 2013, 7:28pm Reply on December 23 2013, 4:35pm: Hell no. Comment... Question: Justin, I am building an app (iPhone) to record videos and need a bit of advice. Can I reach you directly? Send the app to you? (pre Appstore). This is something you�ll love. Asked by Cherian (122.181.11.x) on December 20 2013, 3:54am Reply on December 23 2013, 4:34pm: Sure, send me an email. Comment... Question: Why can't technology and SF/the Mission get along? Asked by Liz Westover (24.5.29.x) on December 17 2013, 8:46am Reply on December 18 2013, 8:52pm: Ah, are they at odds nowadays? Comment... Question: Favourite beer? Asked by Desert Rain (122.176.154.x) on December 16 2013, 5:05pm Reply on December 18 2013, 8:52pm: Hmm I have a weakness for Newcastle... Comment... Question: Are you using things like operator&&, lambda expressions, or whathever stuff of the new C++? Asked by Rodrigo (177.132.172.x) on December 14 2013, 9:16pm Reply on December 14 2013, 10:49pm: Nope, at least not yet. Comment... Question: I'm on Win32 and C. What do you suggest to add zip/unzip support to my program? Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.64.x) on December 13 2013, 2:12am Reply on December 14 2013, 6:58pm: zlib has (in its contrib dir) zip.c and unzip.c, pretty straightforward and works well! I have a version of it in WDL/zlib, should you have that already... Comment... Question: So, umm, would you be willing to implement alternating cores between presets? It is, after all, open source and all, and you could probably do it much faster than anyone else. :) To me, AVS is the unique legacy that no one remotely touched. Pretty please? :) Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on December 13 2013, 12:24am Reply on December 14 2013, 6:58pm (edited at December 14 2013, 6:59pm): Sometime, though I'd have to dig through and see if many of the renderers aren't safe for using different instances in different threads, which could be tedious to fix, though... Comment... Question: Spent a minute reading the ASS I/O sourcecode (funny). Looking at the internal file system, going from 32 to 64 bit ints grows max input file size from 2gb to 9.2exabytes. Who knew 64bits would let one pack that ass so much better? :) Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on December 11 2013, 10:26am Reply on December 12 2013, 10:19pm: Ha ha Comment... Question: What do you think of bitcoin? Asked by ees. (69.15.110.x) on December 10 2013, 6:42pm Reply on December 12 2013, 10:19pm: It's awesome, I like how nobody really knows who made it, too. Though trying to compete to mine at this point seems a bit pointless... Comment... Question: Do you ever wish you solved AVS preset transitions without visible stuttering? Seems to be the only imperfection! Asked by Will (70.173.80.x) on December 10 2013, 8:56am Reply on December 12 2013, 10:17pm: If you get it strongly vsync-limited, so that it is spending less than 50% CPU rendering, it should be able to transition without noticeable loss of framerate. The big problem is that presets tend to run as fast as possible, which means no leftover CPU for running two of them. Might be nice to have them run on separate cores, these days (at the point where AVS had preliminary multiprocessor support, multiprocessor was still pretty rare...) Comment... Question: Now that microsoft is discontinuing windows XP... Do you know if "nullsoft beep" still works on newer versions of windows? I want to feel like a hacker from every nineties movie Asked by Malthe (86.52.105.x) on December 7 2013, 7:08pm Reply on December 9 2013, 9:18am: It oughta work, yeah! Here's a mirror link. Comment... Question: Any thoughts on Opus? Apparently 64kbit/s listening test beat everything! people.xiph.org/~greg/opus/ha2011/ Asked by Will (24.234.85.x) on December 6 2013, 6:23pm Reply on December 7 2013, 6:07pm: Definitely looks awesome, though the tedium of having to add support for a new codec is not something I enjoy... maybe the API will mirror that of Vorbis? Comment... Question: If you could go back in time, would you study computer science or mathematics? Asked by M  & (46.20.45.x) on December 6 2013, 6:16am Reply on December 6 2013, 12:47pm: I quite liked physics... but if i had to choose cs or math, math... (because cs is comparatively easy for me) Comment... Question: Do you use CreateThread or _beginthreadex? Asked by Rodrigo (187.112.78.x) on December 6 2013, 12:26am Reply on December 6 2013, 12:45pm: _beginthreadex if you use any C library functions and don't want leaks on thread termination -- if the lifetime of the thread is that of the process, or it executes trivial code, I'll use either, otherwise _beginthreadex is the safe bet. Comment... [newer questions] [unreplied] | [replied] | [recent comments] | [all] [older questions]

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