[HakanAbbas]

At this stage, what is taken seriously is quite personal. If the source code is a requirement to take it seriously; MS Windows, MS Office, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Winrar and thousands of more wonderful software should not be taken seriously.

Some of the SIMD optimization make compilers automatically. The others can be manually. These speeds can be obtained without using SIMD. Then there may be more with manual SIMD. I think this is what should be loved.

[jcalvinowens]

> MS Windows, MS Office, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Winrar and thousands of more wonderful software should not be taken seriously.

Apples and oranges. I don't need word processing software to be open source to understand how it works. A proportedly novel compression algorithm is a different story...

I can be totally honest with you: FLAC being open source is more valuable to me than any performance benefit you could ever possibly offer over it. It only becomes interesting if I can actually read the code and see what you did.

I am genuinely interested in what you've done here, and I sincerely hope you publish it.

[HakanAbbas]

Hmm. Of course, we don't need to know how Oracle is fast and secure, why Autodesk is a monopoly in the industry, winrar is still used a lot despite being paid, and how Adobe's artificial intelligence-powered filters work.

I am developing HALAC and HALIC as a hobby and I don't expect everyone to use them. I'm happy when I can get good results, and it's bad when I can't. I say this as someone who has been dealing with data compression for 9 years.