[LAD] [BrlCV] My attempt of linking Linux to Eurorack

[Mario Lang]

Kjetil Matheussen <k.s.matheussen at gmail.com> writes:

>> Mario Lang:
>
>> #include <jack.hpp>
>>
>> #include <boost/accumulators/accumulators.hpp>
>> #include <boost/accumulators/statistics.hpp>
>>
>> template<typename... Features>
>> using AudioAccumulatorSet = boost::accumulators::accumulator_set<
>>   float, boost::accumulators::features<Features...>
>> >;
>>
>> using Count = boost::accumulators::tag::count;
>> using Max = boost::accumulators::tag::max;
>> using Min = boost::accumulators::tag::min;
>> using Mean = boost::accumulators::tag::mean;
>> using Variance = boost::accumulators::tag::variance;
>>
>> class Statistics final : public JACK::Client {
>>   JACK::AudioIn In;
>>   AudioAccumulatorSet<Count, Max, Mean, Min, Variance> Accumulator;
>>
>> public:
>>   Statistics() : JACK::Client("Statistics"), In(createAudioIn("In")) {}
>>   int process(std::uint32_t FrameCount) override {
>>     for (auto &Value: In.buffer(FrameCount)) Accumulator(Value);
>>     return 0;
>>   }
>>   auto max() const { return boost::accumulators::max(Accumulator); }
>>   auto mean() const { return boost::accumulators::mean(Accumulator); }
>>   auto min() const { return boost::accumulators::min(Accumulator); }
>>   auto sampleCount() const { return boost::accumulators::count(Accumulator); }
>>   auto variance() const { return boost::accumulators::variance(Accumulator); }
>> };
>
> Nice code. But I wonder about one small thing related to C++.
> Couldn't these max/mean/etc. methods in the Statististics class
> be written shorter like this?:
>
>   auto max() const { return Max(Accumulator); }
>   auto mean() const { return Mean(Accumulator); }
>   auto min() const { return Min(Accumulator); }
>   auto sampleCount() const { return Count(Accumulator); }
>   auto variance() const { return Variance(Accumulator); }

No, because boost::accumulators::tag::mean is not the same as
boost::accumulators::mean.  The first is a "tag" to let the accumulator_set
know (at compile time) which statistics it is supposed to collect,
and the second is a so-called "extractor" which is used to retrieve the result of a
particular statistics (obviously, at runtime).

> Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I haven't used "using" in C++ yet. :-)

Sorry for sort of overusing 'using' here, I was trying to make a point
(to me, mostly) of abstracting away overly long names without the big
hammer of just including a whole namespace.  I tend to prefer knowing
what parts of a namespace are actually actively called/used in my programs.

If you are into long lines, you could of course drop all the using
directives, and eliminate the convenience template AudioAccumulatorSet altogether,
which would give you:

  boost::accumulators::accumulator_set<float, boost::accumulators::features<boost::accumulators::tag::count, boost::accumulators::tag::mean, boost::accumulators::tag::min, boost::accumulators::tag::max, boost::accumulators::tag::variance>> Accumulator;

But now it doesn't look like an ad gig for C++ anymore :-)

But the point of that code was really just to make JACK::Client do
something.

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CYa,
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