Posts from November 2023

• Efficiently reading a CSV of floats in Rust

  12 November 2023 | rust programming | Comment

  In hpstat, we are often required to read large CSV files consisting of a header of string column names, followed by data consisting entirely of floating-point numbers. Profiling reveals that a naïve approach based on generic CSV parsers is inefficient at this task.

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• Constructing a working copy of SCORE 4 – software preservation

  05 November 2023 | music software preservation | Comment

  SCORE is a historical music engraving program written by Professor Leland Smith and developed from 1987 to 2002. It was known for its high-quality results compared to other software available at the time, and its output inspired the Leland music font developed for MuseScore. The… »