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I released froofyJIT 0.26.

Also, I experimented with using froofyJIT to speed up TiMidity++ -- profiling revealed that when processing Rakhmaninov's G minor prelude, it was spending ~1/4 of its time in do_ch_freeverb(), which is static optimization hell. After some hacking, here's the result: a tidy big patch which reduces the running time on this file by ~4%.

The patch probably isn't suitable for the TiMidity++ mainline though, especially since it's in C++, while the rest of the TiMidity++ code is in ye olde C.

Update: the patch is now stashed in the froofyJIT 0.27 tarball.

Mozilla may soon have... a JIT compiler for JavaScript? (!) I guess that means JavaScript is well on its way to becoming a Real Language™ (if such a classification makes sense).

Follow-up on the JavaScript font rendering effort:

fzort informed me that the glyph rendering was bogotified on Internet Explorer:

After more than half a day of hacking, I finally managed to stop IE from rendering the extra stuff below each glyph, and work around IE's PNG transparency bug... and in the process I also learnt about the clip: rect(...) CSS property. :)

Here's the result.

MarkAtwood: Who exactly wrote that, and where exactly did he write that? I hope it's not another of those "let's attribute this fake quote to some famous luminary" things.

Today I discovered <boost/iostreams/filter/bzip2.hpp>.

Well, after fiddling around with fzort's font-packing code for a few days, I came up with this. Some sort of poor man's dynamic browser font, I guess.

Jimbo the pimp, Essjay the quack professor, SlimVirgin the sexy super-spy, and now SWATJester the undercover terrorism expert (or some such)... I think we have enough material for an action movie. Or a comedy series.

I slapped together a silly text game. It probably can't be counted as open source, but the code that was used to garble the JavaScript can be.

In other words, I just whipped up Yet Another VT100 Emulator for JavaScript (now showing Rybolt's "Shamus the Fish"). Pretty useless as it stands... but it's buzzword-compliant!

fzort:

Run GNU/Linux? Be a real man and write your own OS. :)

(OK, I read that the Cassiopeia E-11 has 8Mb of memory... probably already more than enough to run Linux. Running GNU/Linux is another matter though.)