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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I have just
released onto SqueakMap a "pure" Smalltalk port of the Ogg-Vorbis
decoder from Xiph.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">It is VERY
slow, very buggy and the code is so ugly that it would definitely win
the "Ugliest Code Competition".</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I have had a
compulsion to write an Ogg decoder and so I took the hardest, slowest
way I possibly could because I am lazy (confused? Me too).</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I could have
linked the libraries via a plugin and saved myself a huge amount of
work, but I convinced myself that a "pure" codec would be so
cool.</font></blockquote>
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<div>Russell -</div>
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<div>I'm really glad to hear this. Ogg Vorbis is definitely a
quality approach and (unlike much media work) shares our commitment to
open source.</div>
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<div>Good for you to have kept it pure. A while ago we had a
sort of competition to see how much could be squeezed out of a naive
implementation of Tetris. As I recall it was a factor of two in
space and considerably more in speed. I haven't looked at your
code yet, but maybe this would make another good exercise for the
over-brained and under-employed denizens of this list.</div>
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<div>And yes; once it has been cleaned up and tested, plugins will do
wonders for the speed, though my enthusiasm lies more with JITs right
now (actually since the beginning * ;-).</div>
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<div>Thanks for the hard work and the implicit challenge!</div>
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<div>(*) if it's written for slang, even a modest JIT ought to do well
with it, right?</div>
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<div>;-)</div>
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