maca-gamelan 0.3

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+= Gamelan
+
+Gamelan is a good-enough soft real-time event scheduler especially for music
+applications. It exposes a simple API for executing Ruby code at a required
+time. Uses include sending MIDI or OSC messages to external applications or
+hardware.
+
+Gamelan also makes life easier by supporting logical time. Logical time is
+reflected in the scheduler's phase. The unit in logical time is the beat, and
+the Scheduler's phase will increment by 1.0 with every beat.
+
+Logical time varies with real time according to the tempo, which is specified
+in bpm. For example, the Scheduler's phase will increment by 2.0 for every
+second that elapses when using the default tempo of 120bpm. Applications are
+free to alter the tempo at any time, including from within tasks.
+
+= Notes
+
+The author admits that Ruby is not at all friendly to realtime applications.
+No guarantees are made about the scheduler's performance. It will not drift
+(it will always stay in sync with the system clock), but jitter is inevitable.
+This is minimized by using a hybrid spinlock implementation to wait between
+dispatches, and by using a reasonably efficient priority queue to store Tasks.
+
+The design is an elaboration of Topher Cyll's Timer implementation from his
+book, <em>Practical Ruby Projects</em>, and the Priority Queue implementation
+comes from Brian Amberg.

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+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
+name: maca-gamelan
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+  version: "0.3"
+platform: ruby
+authors: 
+- Jeremy Voorhis
+autorequire: 
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+
+date: 2009-05-16 00:00:00 -07:00
+default_executable: 
+dependencies: 
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
+  name: PriorityQueue
+  type: :runtime
+  version_requirement: 
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+    requirements: 
+    - - ">="
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+        version: 0.1.2
+    version: 
+- !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency 
+  name: PriorityQueue
+  type: :runtime
+  version_requirement: 
+  version_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+    requirements: 
+    - - ">="
+      - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+        version: 0.1.2
+    version: 
+description: 
+email: jvoorhis@gmail.com
+executables: []
+
+extensions: []
+
+extra_rdoc_files: 
+- README.rdoc
+files: []
+
+has_rdoc: true
+homepage: http://github.com/jvoorhis/gamelan
+post_install_message: 
+rdoc_options: 
+- --title
+- Gamelan
+- --main
+- README.rdoc
+- --line-numbers
+require_paths: 
+- lib
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
+  requirements: 
+  - - ">="
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
+      version: "0"
+  version: 
+requirements: []
+
+rubyforge_project: gamelan
+rubygems_version: 1.2.0
+signing_key: 
+specification_version: 2
+summary: Gamelan is a good-enough soft real-time event scheduler, written in Ruby, especially for music applications.
+test_files: []
+