On 31. mars 2015 10:20, Will Godfrey wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:08:30 +0100 > Will Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> his morning I was sent an anonymous email with a small block of code, simply >> marked 'latency reduction - do not run recursively'. I couldn't make head nor >> tail of the source code, but guessed it was supposed to go in the main synth >> loop. Well, I had no idea how it worked, but it did indeed reduce latency >> from >> about 10mS down to 9mS. Quite pleased with this I copied and pasted this >> again, >> and lost another mS of latency, so this was a linear reduction not a >> percentage >> one. Fantastic! >> >> Now the painful bit. You see, I was so excited at the possibilities that I >> forgot the warning and turned it into a recursive function. When I ran it >> there >> was a brief flash, then nothing. Rather disappointed I decided go back to the >> single call, only it wasn't there! There was also no sign of the email that >> I'd >> been sent either. I can only guess it was somehow actually winding back time >> until it erased it's own existence :( > > > > Oh bugger! A day out in the calendar, which rather puts the joke on me :(
On the other hand I was caught off guard yesterday, and was pretty puzzled by the email. Delightfully surreal! :-) -- Kristian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ yoshimi-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yoshimi-user
