There's no source? It's very hard to take this seriously without source code...
He explicitly says it's not SIMD, which is nice because it rules out a way of cheesing it, but still...
He explicitly says it's not SIMD, which is nice because it rules out a way of cheesing it, but still...
There are some areas that I follow as-it-develops, but codecs and data compression is one that I'll use when ready. Still awaiting widespread av1 support/adoption.
The area most needing improvements IMO is with Bluetooth, especially Apple's support of codecs (where they're dropping support that worked in older macOS versions).
Still really really impressive to beat an established standard as an individual, that doesn't happen much.
Some of the SIMD optimization make compilers automatically. The others can be manually. These speeds can be obtained without using SIMD. Then there may be more with manual SIMD. I think this is what should be loved.
Apples and oranges. I don't need word processing software to be open source to understand how it works. A proportedly novel compression algorithm is a different story...
I can be totally honest with you: FLAC being open source is more valuable to me than any performance benefit you could ever possibly offer over it. It only becomes interesting if I can actually read the code and see what you did.
I am genuinely interested in what you've done here, and I sincerely hope you publish it.
I am developing HALAC and HALIC as a hobby and I don't expect everyone to use them. I'm happy when I can get good results, and it's bad when I can't. I say this as someone who has been dealing with data compression for 9 years.
Obviously, it's your right to decide... but especially if you think of it as a hobby, why not release the source? It would make your work much more valuable for a lot more people.
When I bring my work to a certain stage, I would like to deliver it to a team that can claim it. However, I want to see how much I can improve my work alone.
The amount of media playback and serving software out there is innumerable. If most of it doesn't handle some obscure format, that format is screwed.
Getting a new format everywhere is a difficult battle; the adoption barriers are high. Even if the thing is completely royalty free, and comes with a great, open source reference implementation.
Something that is closed, and has no backing of some corporate consortium or ITU type body or whatever, is basically fucked.