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I’ll invoke the brain fog card, but I don’t think I really have long covid… it’s just been one of those weeks I guess. (Months?)

Still, it’s a relief to discover after work today that yes indeed I was doing something very silly with LMDB, I don’t think I was experiencing a read bottleneck after all. Thank goodness, because I’m really excited about LMDB.

The silly thing I was doing was storing a reference to the transaction on the instrument struct, and using the same reference in the main thread for writing to the database. One transaction to rule them all. Meaning in the main thread the program was using the same transaction handle to write as the audio callback thread was using to read. I’m surprised that even worked, but I think I must have created an insane situation in the transaction and the callback was just exiting early sometimes, causing the dropouts I thought were xruns.

I’m not totally sure though. Maybe stopping to wire up some more concrete profiling makes sense.

I kinda want to get the serial bridge working so I can play with my arcade buttons tho.

Yep. I’m still hearing dropouts after switching to using one transaction for reads and one for writes. I’m sharing the environment. That is OK. I’m also using two different database handles: one for reads and one for writes. I’m not sure that’s right.

It’s confusing: the docs say once a transaction has been started and a database has been opened inside of it, the database handle can be reused for future transactions. The docs also say that you must either commit your transaction or abort it (or refresh it) all of which close the database, too.

So I’m confused because I’m not reopening the database in new transactions, but supposedly every time I commit or abort the database closes?

I’m also opening the database twice in one process: once for reading only and once for writing only. I don’t know if that’s bad. The docs say don’t open more than one environment in a single process because the POSIX file locks will go goofy, but I’m not sure if opening the database once for each transaction is bad too?? Or if I ought to be reopening it after it closes on each transaction completion??

Something is still goofy anyway. I’m hearing dropouts again. This all reminds me of printing, actually.

The booklets I’m making for the audiobulb comp have two layers of ink: laser print base in black (complete with bespoke printer drum streaking from my 20+ year old printer) and then a layer in various colors of paint pens drawn on with the plotter. I drew the plotter layer over the printed base in inkscape (after a failed round of drawing on vellum and scanning – automatic centerline tracing of the scanned line drawing never looked good) knowing that the actual plot would never line up exactly with the laser-printed layer underneath. The printing term for this is registration: lining things up so when you print the next color, it lines up with the others.

For the booklets it was nice to build around the loose registration: every copy is positioned slightly differently, but the tolerance for the positioning moving akew is pretty high, and the booklet is readable / functional / looks good within the full range of askew tolerances.

For now, I’m going to roll with the misaligned registration of LMDB dropouts because it works aesthetically for rain. The voices that I want to use the streaming interfaces for are OK for dropouts: they’re already meant to be rough and digital in some sense since they’ll be pushed through transducers through materials like wood and metal and those sharp transients on the digital artifacts will become something else.