Arelius

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by Arelius 13y ago
> there are already DX->GL compatibility layers, although most of them are in house, by companies that produce ports (ala Feral Games). And this is Valve releasing their particular variant mostly targeted at other major game studios.
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by Arelius 13y ago
I figure you're talking about DX11's multithreaded submission? While it's true that GL doesn't have support for this yet. AFAIK, DX's implementation is very slow, and all the major engine developers end up implement
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by Arelius 13y ago
Crytek uses libGCM on PS3, not PSGL.
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by Arelius 13y ago
This is simply false the PS4 is at 6 million consoles sold in under 4 months[1]. While the PS3 had sold less than that in 7 months[2]. While I'm not going to double check all the numbers, the PS4 is supposed to be the fastest selling c
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by Arelius 13y ago
So, Voxel Cone Tracing doesn't actually treat static and dynamic geometry as the same. It makes two hierarchical voxel trees, one static, and pre-built. and the other dynamic, and generated per frame. This is really the only way it can
606.
by Arelius 13y ago
I mean, you can just use shadow buffers on everything. And something like a screen-space AO to get a little bit of GI effect. It'll look good enough.
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by Arelius 13y ago
> That strikes me as being pretty much the same as saying that English is only nice because you've been trained to believe it's nice, and why not write your language in Klingon instead? There is a reason we don't program i
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by Arelius 13y ago
> I'm not saying that all outside programmers are inferior. I'm saying that, given a uniformly random sample of Bay Area vs. outside programmer, I would expect the Bay Area programmer to be "better" for some set of ob
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by Arelius 13y ago
No one is suggesting that it should be the exclusive supported toolchain. It may strictly be a larger download than MinGW, but it's certainly less painful and confusing. Sure, Rust may just need a linker, but MinGW is anything but ligh
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by Arelius 13y ago
But having to install the entire mingw toolchain is also clearly not the best for Rust to depend on and use.
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by Arelius 13y ago
I'm not however sure that applies to Rust. And frankly I care a lot less about the pointer operators for smart pointers. Any old accessor is decent, and I find the overloaded pointer operators sometimes confusing. At the very least it&
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by Arelius 13y ago
I assumed that in most cases when you deal with a hash table you want some data returned. That's perhaps not true in the case of adding to the hash table, but if you don't need the result you can just add it to a queue, and do it
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by Arelius 13y ago
> An example would be hash lookups in Ruby You mean for a hash table? I don't think you'll be seeing that any time soon. Hash computation will almost certainly be faster on the primary cpu then just the scheduling and waiting
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by Arelius 13y ago
About as different as the standard CPU/GPU combo is from Cell. This is literally a CPU, with a GPU, with a cache coherent memory bus. The Cell on the other hand is a PowerPC unit, mated with a few Vector FPU units, with no direct memor
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by Arelius 13y ago
I'd be surprised if Mantle did not have a way to issue compute shaders.
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by Arelius 13y ago
In particular, Mantle on an APU will give you much better control of memory allocation, usage, transfer, and caching. Which is something that having the GPU on die will excel at. Mantle is also good at decreasing the overhead of issuing n
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by Arelius 13y ago
That's great. Really, the only case in C++ I want operator overloading, is to implement standard math operators on custom types, like Vector3s, Matrices, and Bignums.
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by Arelius 13y ago
I'd love to help with this, but I'm under the impression that this would also require getting llvm working properly under msvc, which just sounds like an immense task.
619.
by Arelius 13y ago
Please don't depend on MinGW. MSVC is the best supported compiler toolchain on Windows. Use it.
620.
by Arelius 13y ago
If you think this is still true, then clearly you haven't used Firefox as of recent.
621.
by Arelius 13y ago
That sounds a lot better then pretty much 100% of Android systems come with proprietary software from day one.
622.
by Arelius 13y ago
Android may be roughly on par with the openness of SteamOS. But you'd be hard pressed to argue that Android is roughly on par with the openness of the common Linux desktop.
623.
by Arelius 13y ago
As a consumer, from a privacy standpoint I agree. But engineers and designers of the actual hardware don't tend to feel quite the same way.
624.
by Arelius 13y ago
It's not difficult, but it makes the system unflexible, The vendors, not worried about the privacy implications, choose what makes the system more flexible. I've heard that this was a serious flaw in Google's opinion, and the
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by Arelius 13y ago
> Custom graphics compositor designed to provide a seamless transition between Steam, its games and the SteamOS system overlay That is the exciting part to me. Anyone have any details? I'm about to go digging.
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by Arelius 13y ago
> Debian makes up most of desktop linux anyway Actually, I'm pretty sure that spot belongs to Ubuntu, which is why: > Valve has been focusing on Ubuntu up to now They focus on Ubuntu release because that is where their target pla
627.
by Arelius 13y ago
Do you have any evidence to back this up? We've never seen SteamOS so we can't say what it's been for any of it's history. This sounds like pure speculation to me, and if I had to speculate I think it's more likely
628.
by Arelius 13y ago
This is awesome, I'd love to do it. I type on a Kinesis most of the time, and it's great. The one thing I wish I had though, was a laptop with a split space bar. Thumb delete is the best keyboard innovation in like 20 years.
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by Arelius 13y ago
I don't understand this terribly well, but shouldn't then market forces, the decreased price of power and water in places due to decreased demand cause it to be an attractive place to build a data center regardless? Why then do we
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by Arelius 13y ago
Darwin itself uses very little BSD code. It's built on Mach. OS X does however import much of the BSD userland, but I don't even know if much of that makes it into iOS. I think it'd be a fair guess to say that iOS likely cont

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