readerwriterqueue VS ChaosKit

I have looked at the commonly recommended - https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue - https://github.com/rigtorp/MPMCQueue

The PREEMPT error looks like its a C module but I cannot tell from he little snippet of the log - you may do better to move the *arr and Synchthing into Docker containers to keep the OS cleaner.

For audio DSP in a Qt app I have good success with using a lock-free queue (e.g. https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue) to communicate from / to the UI threads. Code more-or-less looks like

    connect(model, &ModelObject::somethingChanged, [=] {

We recently removed readerwriterqueue from our project due to issues and replaced with simple locking queue (and got better performance in the result). Your code looks interesting, but we can't use it due to C++17 usage.

Paul Bourke's website is great; don't forget to check his other articles!

Over 10 years ago, it inspired me to play with strange attractors, which eventually ended with me writing https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit.

It was fun and I learned a lot, but it's definitely a deep rabbit hole. I've moved on since then.

I'm not the parent, but I did something similar. It's an editor for fractal flames where the UI is done in QML and rendering and generation is done in C++ and OpenGL. https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit

I liked that QML allowed me to iterate quickly on the UI. It was really quick to just compose a bunch of components together and have something working. I also enjoyed the integration with the C++ side. Overall I found QML pretty solid. If I'd build a desktop app again, I'd definitely consider it.

https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit

Demo video: https://youtu.be/ZSz3zN14NTQ

It's an editor and renderer for Fractal Flames[1] written in C++17 and with a UI in Qt/QML. Other software that renders Fractal Flames is e.g. Electric Sheep[2] or Apophysis[3].

It's a project that I've been working on and off for 10 years and it's still not ready… Reimplementing it several times certainly didn't help, but I learned a lot in the process! It's grown from a simple for loop to basically a language interpreter.

Sorry for the lack of README or license, but this is still half-baked ;)

[1] https://flam3.com/

[2] https://electricsheep.org/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophysis_(software)