Aardappel

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   by Aardappel 11y ago

   > It would be like seeing the same house on three different real estate websites and then thinking you can buy three houses. No it's not, since with the houses it would be easy to verify that there's no 3 houses available. The
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   by Aardappel 11y ago

   FlatBuffers isn't available natively for JS (yet), though you could use it through asm.js if you really wanted to.
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   by Aardappel 11y ago

   Good point. Lookup in Java is a bit slower than in the language FlatBuffers was originally designed for (C++), but being able to bypass Java's object allocation may well make up for that.
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   by Aardappel 11y ago

   There's a lot more to it than just being binary. The big deal is that it can be accessed in-place while still being portable and forwards/backwards compatible. For example, Protocol Buffers is binary too, but requires unpacking, c
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   by Aardappel 11y ago

   Thanks! I guess it's because we're a game development group inside Google, who are more externally focused than most Google engineers. We wanted to ensure the library is attractive to outside developers, hence CMake and other choi
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   by Aardappel 12y ago

   This one in Lobster, roughly the same amount of code, no textures, but is interactive (you can actually mine & build): http://i.imgur.com/ZZWFkXn.jpg
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   by Aardappel 12y ago

   And FlatBuffers actually uses ByteBuffer as part of its Java implementation.
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   by Aardappel 12y ago

   Most readers of binary file formats can be made to read memory outside the buffer by corrupting the data, and FlatBuffers is no different. That said, an option to bounds-check every offset would be possible, at a certain cost. Might be a ni
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   by Aardappel 12y ago

   Yup. An array of Vec3 (3 floats) will just take N*12 bytes, as you expect.
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    by Aardappel 12y ago

    Hi. I designed most of FlatBuffers, so let me see if I can clarify: Clearly, FlatBuffers seeks a different design tradeoff than Cap'n Proto. We wanted to retain all the flexibility of Protobufs, while having the advantages of the &quot
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    by Aardappel 13y ago

    shoot me an email if you can, can't seem to find yours online.
12. 252.▲
    by Aardappel 13y ago

    the second option is the intended one, yes. I'd only switch that out to first one if you ever found that allocating objects is the bottleneck in your code, which it shouldn't be.
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    by Aardappel 13y ago

    You are both right. My use of C# is deliberately basic to give users of other languages a good chance to follow it too.
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    by Aardappel 13y ago

    Thanks! - considering adding "full" closures at some point, so far haven't felt the need. We'll see how unbearable this gets eventually :) - it does have a GC, which needs to be manually invoked. In games, that means you
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    by Aardappel 13y ago

    I agree that is indeed very generous! I am not sure I need it though, as I am fine having the main lobster page be a subpage of my personal wiki for the moment. That said, if it gets popular, it might be useful. Wanna hang on to it for the
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    by Aardappel 13y ago

    It's not common. This is the inspiration: http://strlen.com/java-style-classes-in-c
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    by Aardappel 14y ago

    Software has a habit of becoming exponentially complex as the featureset increases, so I am not that impressed by small code if you cut features aggressively. To prove a point, I wrote a minecraft clone in about 60 lines of code (10x less t