THIS WEEK IN MODUS — № 27
5–11 SEPTEMBER 2026
296 COMMITS · 17 OF 46 REPOS
A DVD PLAYS,
BIT-EXACT
On Saturday the workspace could decode one video codec. By Friday it could decode eight, in five containers, with four new audio codecs beside them — and every one of them is checked sample-for-sample against ffmpeg, a conformance suite, or the reference encoder’s own checksum. The decoder written on Sunday became the benchmark that drove Modus’s compiler from 3 to 60 frames a second on a Pi 5 by Thursday, after a profiler overturned the conclusion everyone had drawn about where the time went. And the browser client is now built by a JavaScript engine this project wrote.
https://modus-lisp.github.io/issues/2026-09-12/
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