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kleines Filmröllchen 14d330faba LibAudio: Avoid frequent read() calls in FLAC residual decode
Decoding the residual in FLAC subframes is by far the most I/O-heavy
operation in FLAC decoding, as the residual data makes up the majority
of subframe data in LPC subframes. As the residual consists of many
Rice-encoded numbers with different bit sizes for differently large
numbers, the residual decoder frequently reads only one or two bytes at
a time. As we use a normal FileInputStream, that directly translates to
many calls to the read() syscall. We can see that the I/O overhead while
FLAC decoding is quite large, and much time is spent in the read()
syscall's kernel code.

This is optimized by using a Buffered<FileInputStream> instead, leading
to 4K blocks being read at once and a large reduction in I/O overhead.

Benchmarking with the new abench utility gives a 15-20% speedup on
identical files, usually pushing FLAC decoding to 10-15x realtime speed
on common sample rates.
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SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

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About

SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.

Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.

I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.

Sometimes I write about the system on my github.io blog.

I'm also on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors if you would like to show some support that way.

Screenshot

Screenshot as of b36968c.png

Kernel features

  • x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
  • Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
  • IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
  • ext2 filesystem
  • POSIX signals
  • Purgeable memory
  • /proc filesystem
  • Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
  • Filesystem notifications
  • CPU and memory profiling
  • SoundBlaster 16 driver
  • VMWare/QEMU mouse integration

System services

  • Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
  • Compositing window server (WindowServer)
  • Text console manager (TTYServer)
  • DNS client (LookupServer)
  • Network protocols server (RequestServer and WebSocket)
  • Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
  • Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
  • HTTP server (WebServer)
  • Telnet server (TelnetServer)
  • DHCP client (DHCPClient)

Libraries

  • C++ templates and containers (AK)
  • Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
  • 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
  • OpenGL 1.x compatible library (LibGL)
  • GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
  • Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
  • HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
  • JavaScript engine (LibJS)
  • Markdown (LibMarkdown)
  • Audio (LibAudio)
  • Digital Signal Processing/Synthesizer Chains (LibDSP)
  • PCI database (LibPCIDB)
  • Terminal emulation (LibVT)
  • Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
  • Mathematical functions (LibM)
  • ELF file handling (LibELF)
  • POSIX threading (LibPthread)
  • Higher-level threading (LibThreading)
  • Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
  • HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
  • IMAP (LibIMAP)

Userland features

  • Unix-like libc and userland
  • Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
  • On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
  • Web browser (Browser)
  • C++ IDE (HackStudio)
  • Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
  • E-mail client (Mail)
  • Various desktop apps & games
  • Color themes

How do I read the documentation?

Man pages are available online at man.serenityos.org. These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in Base/usr/share/man and updated automatically.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Before opening an issue

Please see the issue policy.

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

Get in touch

Join our Discord server: SerenityOS Discord

Author

Contributors

(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.