2019
Last Tuesday Beast 0.15.0 was released. This is most probably the last
release that supports the Gtk+ Beast UI. We have most of the bits and pieces
together to move towards the new EBeast UI and a new synthesis…
Yesterday, I sat down to upgrade the Font Awesome package used by Beast’s
new UI from 4.7.0 to 5.9.0. In the end, I found that the icons look way
more crispy and professional in the 4.7.0 version. Here is an…
The paper Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++ Applications is
about moving memory allocations for compaction, even though the memory
pointers are exposed. The idea is to merge allocation blocks from…
Every once in a while I start pondering ways to get rid of the slowness
and overwhelming complexity of the autotools machinery, in particular autoconf
and libtool. GNU Make has been a great companion for…