Re: [LAD] [Faudiostream-devel] [ANN] Faust 0.9.24

hermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the new release, it work very well here with my old projects.
> The new select2 is very welcome here.
> Also I make the move to double precision, and get a much better denormal
> protection now.
>
> great work,
> greats
> hermann
>
Thanks Hermann, I appreciate :-). Concerning denormals, wasn't the
AVOIDDENORMALS macro enough to avoid the problem ?
Cheers

Yann

> Am Sonntag, den 16.05.2010, 22:08 +0200 schrieb Orlarey Yann:
>
>> ================
>> | FAUST 0.9.24 |
>> ================
>>
>>
>> GRAME - Centre National de Creation Musicale - is happy to announce
>> the release of FAUST 0.9.24. This version fixes several bugs,
>> and introduces some new possibilities in the language.
>>
>> -------------
>> About FAUST :
>> -------------
>>
>> FAUST (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming
>> language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and
>> synthesis. A distinctive characteristic of FAUST is to be fully
>> compiled. The FAUST compiler translates DSP specifications into
>> very efficient C++ code that works at sample level. It targets
>> high-performance signal processing applications, libraries and
>> audio plug-ins for a variety of audio platforms and standards. A
>> same FAUST specification can be used to easily generate native
>> JACK or ALSA applications, as well as CSOUND, LADSPA, MAX/MSP, PD,
>> Q, SC and VST plugins.
>>
>> The Faust distribution can be downloaded at:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/faudiostream
>>
>> Two mailing lists are available:
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-devel
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/faudiostream-users
>>
>> In order to test FAUST without installing it, please refer to the
>> Online Faust Compiler:
>> http://faust.grame.fr
>>
>>
>> ------------
>> What's new :
>> ------------
>>
>> - Explicit substitutions. The language has been extended with new
>> expressions type : exp[x1=def1; x2=def2; ...] allowing explicit
>> substitutions in the lexical environment of an expression. This
>> extension allows for instance, to customize an existing component
>> by replacing some of its internal definitions without having to
>> modify its source code. This extension is particularly useful to
>> promote better code reuse.
>>
>> - Improved mathematical description (--mathdoc option) and support
>> for two new languages : German (-mdlang de) and Italian (-mdlang
>> it)
>>
>> - Support for floating point numbers in scientific notation and
>> better precision for floating point constants. The precision used
>> to print a floating point constant in the generated C++ code is no
>> more limited to 6 digits. It is now dynamically adjusted to find
>> the minimal number of digits that will produce the same internal
>> representation when read back. This approach guarantees accuracy
>> without sacrificing for readability.
>>
>> - All expressions are now systematically represented in polynomial
>> forms. For example x*x will be replaced by x^2. If x is a complex
>> expression the later form has several advantages, in particular to
>> limit CSE.
>>
>> - Lazy semantics to select2 and select3 : the code generated for
>> select2 and select3 is now based on conditional expressions
>> ((cond)?exp1:exp0 ) instead of tables. The resulting code is more
>> efficient as the stateless parts of the branches are not computed
>> every time but only when really needed.
>>
>> - new --task-graph option. It produces a graphical representation
>> of the internal DAG of task in dot format (Graphviz
>> http://www.graphviz.org/). This DAG is useful for example to
>> understand the potential parallelism of a program as analyzed by
>> the Faust compiler
>>
>> - Two new tools : faust2graph and faust2graphviewer. These tools
>> make use of the --task-graph option in order to produce the
>> graphical representation, as a PDF file, of the internal DAG of
>> tasks of a Faust program (require Graphviz).
>>
>> - new reduce.lib library. It provides various operations on block
>> of samples based on a high order 'reduce(op, n)' fold-like
>> function. Moreover the music.lib library has been extended with
>> break-point functions and multiple decorrelated random and noise
>> generators. New flanger and stereowidth control have been added to
>> the effect.lib library.
>>
>> - new iPhone architecture. It consists in a iphone-cocoa.cpp
>> architecture file and an Xcode template project to be used to
>> produce the applications. Use "make iphone" in the example folder
>> to build the examples for the iPhone.
>>
>> - improved cross plateform compatibility and brand new visual
>> studio 2008 project to build Faust on windows machines.
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> Bug Fixes:
>> ----------
>>
>> - Report error when non-integer table size is detected during
>> compilation
>>
>> - Corrected partial application of power operator. Now ^(n) is
>> equivalent to \(x).(x^n) and not anymore to \(x).(n^x)
>>
>> - Added missing faustpower definition when power function is
>> used only in table content.
>>
>> - Fixed lock-free implementations of PopHead and PopTail functions on
>> work stealing queues in --scheduler mode
>>
>> - Corrected missing dependencies in the internal DAG of tasks
>>
>> - Added missing cache code to slow shared expressions used delayed
>>
>> - Added missing cache code to foreign functions
>>
>>
>> ----------------
>> Acknowledgments:
>> ----------------
>>
>> Many persons have been contributing to the FAUST project by
>> providing code for the compiler, architecture files, libraries,
>> examples, documentation, scripts, bug reports, ideas, etc.
>>
>> I would like to thank them and especially: Fons Adriaensen, Tiziano
>> Bole, Baktery Chanka, Thomas Charbonnel, Damien Cramet, Etienne
>> Gaudrin, Albert Graef, Stefan Kersten, Victor Lazzarini, Matthieu
>> Leberre, Mathieu Leroi, Kjetil Matheussen, Remy Muller, Sampo
>> Savolainen, Nicolas Scaringella, Stephen Sinclair, Travis Skare,
>> Julius Smith, as well as my colleagues at GRAME, in particular :
>> Dominique Fober, Stephane Letz and Karim Barkati, and from the
>> ASTREE project : Jerome Barthelemy (IRCAM), Alain Bonardi (IRCAM),
>> Raffaele Ciavarella (IRCAM), Pierre Jouvelot (Ecole des
>> Mines/ParisTech), Laurent Pottier (U. Saint-Etienne)
>>
>> Yann Orlarey
>> GRAME
>>
>>
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