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by HakanAbbas 898 days ago
At this stage, what is taken seriously is quite personal. If the source code is a requirement to take it seriously; MS Windows, MS Office, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Winrar and thousands of more wonderful software should not be taken seriously.

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.
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jcalvinowens 898 days ago
> MS Windows, MS Office, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Winrar and thousands of more wonderful software should not be taken seriously.

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.

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HakanAbbas 898 days ago
Hmm. Of course, we don't need to know how Oracle is fast and secure, why Autodesk is a monopoly in the industry, winrar is still used a lot despite being paid, and how Adobe's artificial intelligence-powered filters work.

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.

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jcalvinowens 898 days ago
I think the results are very interesting: just to reiterate, I would love to see what you've done here, and I hope you publish it.

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.

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HakanAbbas 898 days ago
Frankly, if I publish open sources now, I can't take care of them again. Because there will be no excitement. I say this because I know myself very well.

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.

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kazinator 897 days ago
Autodesk has a monopoly because, oh, web browsers don't have to open Autocad drawings.

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.

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HakanAbbas 897 days ago
You say it's not worth spending time on such work, discovering new things and pondering. I understand.
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kazinator 897 days ago
No reasoning process rooted in reading comprehension can come to the conclusion that I wrote such a thing.
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