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by copx 13y ago
C# is a better Java. F# is a better Ocaml. Yet practically nobody not on the Microsoft stack uses them. It is a tragedy based on corporate interests (Microsoft's interests to tightly couple C#/F#/.NET to its other software of
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by copx 13y ago
Squirrel: http://squirrel-lang.org/
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by copx 13y ago
Rust is meant to replace C++, not C. The original motivation was that the Mozilla devs were sick and tired of all the subtle ways bugs can sneak into a large, complex C++ code base. The ultimate aim is to write the nextgen browser engine no
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by copx 13y ago
>Why is line level profiling so non-existent for dynamic languages? It isn't. As usual the answer is LuaJIT (sorry, I am a fanboy, got to admit it): http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/3413
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by copx 13y ago
That is a new trend though, primarily pushed by the fact that the popular Unity game engine uses this model I think. OOP is a perfectly serviceable model for developing games like this, especially if you use modern OOP i.e. heavy on composi
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by copx 13y ago
Upvoted for sympathy. You just defined a new meaning of Stockholm Syndrome: Post-traumatic stress disorder caused by being forced to listen to Swedish pop music for a prolonged period of time. Symptoms include being able to recite silly, m
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by copx 13y ago
Ouya is a commercial flop, sorry. Even if you like the platform, there is no money to be made there and it seems you very much want to make some. Also your kickstarter is horrible. Most people will decide within seconds whether to take a cl
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Optimization in the Twenty-First Century(prog21.dadgum.com)
27 points by copx 13y ago|4 comments
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LÖVE 0.9.0 released(love2d.org)
2 points by copx 13y ago|0 comments
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by copx 13y ago
The post was satire, my rant was meant to be nonsense. The linked article over-analyses a game and over-estimates the impact of games in general. If you did the same thing with Harvest Moon you could indeed classify it as pro-vegetarian pro
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by copx 13y ago
Call of Duty is bad, not as bad as Harvest Moon though. That game teaches that love is something you buy, turning our children into prostitutes with its underlying message. We must eradicate this filth! http://gamezfile.com/
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by copx 13y ago
>Looked really cool, but it was buggy It was quite buggy on release day, but there were official patches and afterwards unofficial ones. With the newest unofficial patch I cannot say I encountered a single bug. >I lost interest after
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by copx 13y ago
>have any RPGs since Fallout surpassed it in allowing the player to truly embody an actual path? Yes, Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
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by copx 13y ago
Here: Rectangle(100, 100, 400, 400) That or something very similar [1] draws a rectangle from pixel position (100,100) to (400,400) in many high level 2D graphics environments. Just posting this to point out that you do not have to m
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Lua Fun, a high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT(rtsisyk.github.io)
1 points by copx 13y ago|0 comments
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by copx 13y ago
People who grew up in Cold War West Germany (like me) got fed the propaganda that mass surveillance is totalitarian, communist evil because communist East Germany was infamous for it, so they are more likely to view these things as a seriou
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by copx 13y ago
I do not think the US government would bother to try to prosecute that. It is just not worth the resulting diplomatic drama. I think right now the Obama administration is happy that people are starting to forget about the whole affair. The
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by copx 13y ago
If S&P had an agenda against high taxes and extensive welfare states they would downgrade the Scandinavians first. The vikings easily beat France in those categories yet they all have triple-A ratings. These ratings are supposed to indi
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by copx 13y ago
Some people here seem to be seriously confused by anti-SF FUD. These ad-ware loaded installers are not the default. You have to explicitly opt-in. It provides SF and projects hosted there (a kinda shady) optional way to make money. The
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by copx 13y ago
>Good: Portable: builds on any platform with an ANSI C compiler. >Bad: No POSIX functions built-in. This is an either/or thing. You cannot implement those functions in portable ANSI C, it is platform-specific functionality. Also
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by copx 13y ago
Here is one major reason: I have read that Guido van Rossum rejects all CPython patches which simply improve performance, because he thinks Python is "fast enough" and is unwilling to make the code more complex / risk the int
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by copx 13y ago
I was thinking of Clojure's persistent data structures when I said optimized for immutable data. There is a world of difference between those and creating a new object every time you want to change something.
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by copx 13y ago
Not there yet, not even close. Mike Pall announced his proposal for a new GC a long time ago and thus far no sponsor has shown up. I doubt there is enough interest. This is a major project (i.e. non-trivial amount of sponsor money needed) a
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by copx 13y ago
Working with immutable data in Lua is not a good idea if you care about performance. You end up generating a massive number of short-lived objects and Lua is not built for that. Java's advanced generational GC can handle it surprisingl
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by copx 13y ago
Reading the comments here makes me think I am in bizarro world. Is expecting women to say "No!" already too much personal responsibility for them these days? Calling this "sexual assault" is just crazy. There was no forc
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by copx 13y ago
Seems it could be even faster: http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/ANN-luje-01
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by copx 13y ago
>I think it's 'common knowledge' which has outlived it's relevance as I can't recall the last time I found -O2 outperforming -O3. I can, was about 4 months ago with GCC 4.8.0. >practically every performance or
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by copx 13y ago
It is common knowledge among GCC users. In the past using -O3 was rare because it often generated downright broken code. There used to be an official warning about that. The situation is better nowadays but still, as far as I know, no major
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by copx 13y ago
Looking at the github it seems you benchmark GCC 4.8.1 vs. go 1.2rc1. Numbers for Go look promising if one considers that Google's Go implementation does not even have an advanced optimizer yet (in contrast to GCC). >c++ -std=c++11
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by copx 13y ago
The author is Fabio Mascarenhas ( http://lua-users.org/wiki/FabioMascarenhas ) so he certainly does know. Just makes it more disappointing, though :P Well, at least the code archives and homework pages are indexed corre

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