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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
If it's all the same, why use separate files?
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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
The original gameboy has 8K of RAM and the first and second gen pokemon games run on it. Most of the hard work is done by the graphics and sound hardware. Fairly large games though.
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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
Array languages like APL/K/J can be tremendously fast for an interpreter, since each bytecode works on entire arrays at a time. Not quite as fast as say, C or C++ compiled with a modern compiler, but I think they can match other
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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
That's a poor analogy. It calls itself a string function but isn't. So it's more like a airsoft gun that actually shoots bullets, but you don't know until you decide to shoot yourself in the leg to see what it feels li
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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
It's very different when you can see the side effect right there, vs happening somewhere else entirely.
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by ehaliewicz2 8y ago
"Again, not trying to be mean, but when your picture came up I said "Yep, that looks like a guy who'd expose himself to minors"." You mean, after knowing about it? That's textbook confirmation bias. Would you
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by ehaliewicz2 9y ago
It's very different from phones, where you don't need to keep your eyes on the road to avoid ramming your 3000lb metal box into the car in front of you. Tactile controls facilitate use without having to look at them, so you can ke
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by ehaliewicz2 9y ago
Tactile feedback allows you to use controls without taking your eyes off the road. Do you really want the opposite of this in a car?
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by ehaliewicz2 9y ago
I think this is roughly similar to what the xlengine guy ( http://xlengine.com/ ) is doing.
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by ehaliewicz2 9y ago
Turbos do not make anything more fuel efficient, they simply allow you to have the fuel efficiency of a small engine off boost, and match the power of a larger engine while on boost. It's still a tradeoff however, there's always
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by ehaliewicz2 9y ago
I think a good way to understand how they work is by implementing a simple Scheme interpreter that explicitly passes around the continuations of the guest language. This page helped me quite a bit a few years ago http://blog.thei
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by ehaliewicz2 10y ago
It's the same as any other compiler, just generate javascript out of the backend.
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by ehaliewicz2 10y ago
Conceptually? I'd say it can be tedious, if done by hand, but the concepts are pretty simple.
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by ehaliewicz2 10y ago
Lack of curved surfaces is not a fundamental flaw of a voxel representation, blocky is just the most common way of rendering them.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
It's interesting you use that as an example, because 'well regulated', at the time in which the law was written, meant well-equipped and in proper working order.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
I think direct threading is usually implemented just by reducing the indirection another level, e.g. goto *lp rather than goto **lp You could implement an interpreter with generated JMP instructions, which might be called dire
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
Of course, with proper tail calls, you can get generators and any kind of control structure almost for free :)
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
To be fair, Doom did not use raycasting either, but yes, the underworld games were significantly more advanced at the time.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
It's a common misconception, but Doom uses a BSP-tree based renderer, not raycasting.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
My master password is roughly based on some poorly written english text found in the ROM of an old japanese video game.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
That's a similar idea to one of the interpreters in SICP, where for each node in a lisp expression, you compile a closure with the code that knows how to evaluate itself. This way you can save on parsing the same structure multiple tim
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
Jython compiles to JVM bytecode actually. That bytecode consists of a lot of calls to methods implemented in java though.
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by ehaliewicz2 11y ago
I'm not sure what you could express in XML that you couldn't translate to s-expressions in one way or another.
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by ehaliewicz2 12y ago
If I remember correctly, she made a joke about male genitalia on twitter just a few days beforehand.