Tim Blechmann — C++ Libraries

Landing page for my c++ libraries.

Nova Libraries

Personal C++ libraries for systems programming, audio, and real-time applications.

nova-symbol

Interned, hashed string symbols for C++20. Immutable, flyweight design with pointer-sized storage, fast comparison, and pre-hashed values inspired by Lisp, SmallTalk and SuperCollider.

nova-nonnull

Non-null smart pointer adapters and callable wrappers for C++20 with compiler attributes for better code generation. Move-aware wrapper types for unique_ptr, shared_ptr, and function objects.

Synchronization primitives for C++20: specialized mutex and event types optimized for different use cases. Includes spinlocks, fair mutexes, POSIX real-time mutexes, and platform-specific async mutexes (which allow event loop integration).

nova-enums

Smart enums library for C++20 with introspection: string/enum conversions, validity checking, and exhaustive value enumeration via constexpr sorted arrays.

nova-memoryresource

C++ std::pmr::memory_resource implementations. Features real-time-safe TLSF allocator with O(1) guarantees and mimalloc backend support for high-performance memory management.

nova-parameter

Header-only template keyword parameter library for C++20. Provides type-safe, compile-time parameter extraction, validation concepts, and named template arguments.

nova-simd

Header-only SIMD framework for audio and computer music applications. Provides a templated vec class abstracting SSE/SSE2, AVX, PowerPC/Altivec, and ARM/NEON with vectorized math operations, audio DSP functions, and mixed scalar/vector operations. Originally developed for and extracted from SuperCollider.

Boost Libraries

Contributed libraries in the Boost C++ Libraries collection.

Boost.Lockfree

Lock-free FIFO queues and stacks for concurrent programming without mutexes. Broken out of my supernova synthesis server for SuperCollider.

Boost.Heap

Priority queue data structures: d-ary heap, Fibonacci heap, binomial heap, and more. Written for Google's Summer of Code.