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9a23aa773b Invocation: analyse usage of buffer metadata entries
Code clean-up: mark all buffers with a dedicated tagging type


The point in question is: if we work the LocalTag into the type-hash,
could it be possible to miss an existing entry in the metadata registry?
This could cause two entries to be locked for a single buffer address,
leading to data corruption.

As far as I can see, in the current usage this would not happen,
but unfortunately this problem can not be ruled out, since the BufferProvider
API and protocol is designed to be open for various usage patterns.

However, the same potentially disastrous pattern could also materialise
when registering two different buffer types, and then locking each
for the same buffer location.
2024-07-28 19:29:27 +02:00
6d7a814495 Invocation: settle upon a way to mark the output buffer
...this is a surprisingly tricky issue, since it undercuts the
generic and recursive implementation of buffer handling;

fortunately I've foreseen such demands may arise down the road
and I've reserved an »Local Key« (now renamed into `LocalTag`),
whose meaning is implementation defined and interpreted by
the specific `BufferProvider`
2024-07-27 17:17:02 +02:00
fc9ff9252a Invocation: clarify role of Buffer-Descriptor and Dependency-Injection
It became clear that a secondary system of connections must be added,
running top-down from a global model context, and thus contrary to the
regular orientation of the node network, which connects upwards from
predecessor to successor, in accordance with the pull principle.

If we accept this wiring as part of the primary structure, it can be
established immediately while building the nodes, thus adding a preconfigured
''pattern of Buffer Descriptors'' to each node, since there is no further
''moving part'' — beyond the wiring to the `BufferProvider`, which thus
becomes part of a global `ModelContext`

As an immediate consequence, the storage for this configuraion should
also be switched to `lib::Several` and handled similar to the primary
node wiring in the Builder...
2024-07-15 18:52:59 +02:00
8c536fc637 Invocation: consider what is required to setup a FeedManifold
...and this line of analysis brings us deep into the ''Buffer Provider''
concept developed in 2012 — which appears to be very well to the point
and stands the test of time.

Adding some ''variadic arguments'' at the right place surprisingly leads
to an ''extension point'' — which in turn directly taps into the
still quite uncharted territory interfacing to a **Domain Ontology**;
the latter is assumed to define how to deal with entities and relationships
defined by some media handling library like e.g. FFmpeg.
So what we're set to do here is actually ''ontology mapping....''
2024-06-29 04:22:23 +02:00
555ca0bff9 Global-Layer-Renaming: rename namespaces 2018-11-15 23:55:13 +01:00
72b15b8e45 Global-Layer-Renaming: transform header include guards
btw... we could change to #pragma once
2018-11-15 23:52:02 +01:00
2d5ebcd5fa Global-Layer-Renaming: adjust header includes 2018-11-15 23:42:43 +01:00
6261779531 Global-Layer-Renaming: rearrange directories
backend -> vault
proc -> steam
gui -> stage
2018-11-15 23:28:03 +01:00
Renamed from src/proc/engine/buffer-provider.hpp (Browse further)