The global pattern table is constructed only during compilation. At this point, we can do also all sorts of optimizations / changes e.g. remove unnecessary releases and reuse patterns if there's a pattern already that could be used.
gopher had fixed this, but we foolishly removed it. reintroducing fix, although this could be optional only for those who really care. ultimate size optimizers could still want to get rid of it.
The working principle is similar as before with x86, but instead of outputting .asm, it outputs .wat. This can be compiled into .wasm by using the wat2wasm assembler.
Play depends on bridge and compile on compiler package. Before, the compiler depended on bridge, but we could not use the compiler to build the library, as the bridge depends on the library. Also, play can now start having slightly more options e.g. wav out etc.
The preprocessing is done sointu-cli and (almost) nothing is done by the NASM preprocessor anymore (some .strucs are still there.
Now, sointu-cli loads the .yml song, defines bunch of macros (go functions / variables) and passes the struct to text/template parses.
This a lot more powerful way to generate .asm code than trying to fight with the nasm preprocessor.
At the moment, tests pass but the repository is a bit of monster, as the library is still compiled using the old approach. Go should
generate the library also from the templates.
The header files are automatically generated during build. No need to #define anything; everything is fixed by the .asm file. This adds go as a dependency to run the unit tests, but this is probably not a bad thing, as go is probably needed anyway if one wants to actually start developing Sointu.
Trying to force a specific song length other than the default never quite worked, so we'll only support the default MAX_SAMPLES & will calculate it for the user in the user in the exported .h header file.
Whoever uses it, probably wants their own Patch format, as now it is pretty cumbersome to work with sampleoffsets and delays, as the user needs to construct the delaytimes tables and sampleoffset tables.
