A Chinese team has apparently developed a runtime compiler for SAOL -- more about this later.

The whole idea of SAOL is user-defined opcodes. The compiler gives you a few built-in opcodes, you make more user-defined ones using both the built-ins and other user-defined ones. It's a more elegant solution than we currently have in Csound, because SAOL is a real procedural programming language. 

The idea is, the UDOs are as basically as good as native ones. So, there's no need for plugin opcodes like we have in Csound. It's a universal synthesizer. That's the idea, anyway.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Iain Duncan 
>Sent: Jul 24, 2006 10:18 PM
>To: Developer discussions 
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] is SAOL (MPEG-4SA) dead?
>
>Michael Gogins wrote:
>> As near as I can tell, the project is dead as far as computer music is 
>> concerned. It is still alive as far as MPEG itself and John Lazzaro is 
>> concerned. It looks to me like he is continuing to refine Sfront as a 
>> reference implementation for the RTP MIDI protocol that he is working on.
>> 
>> The project would come back to life as far as computer music is concerned, 
>> maybe, if someone would come up with a runtime engine for SAOL that is 
>> better than the runtime engine for Csound.
>
>Was there not some talk a few years ago about Csound5 providing a new
>engine for SAOL language? Or has the csound language caught up to SAOL?
>Or is this "new parser" talk? I remember liking some of the linguistic
>features of SAOL when I checked it out, but thinking I could never
>abandon csound for so few opcodes ...
>
>Iain
>
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