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by khalladay 10y ago
You are definitely right. Tonc has some interesting data (here: http://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/text.htm#tbl-txt-se2 ) about performance of operations with 16 bit vs 32 bit variables, but none of that information
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by khalladay 10y ago
Thanks! I think the feedback that I got last week on here was very good. Despite my initial desire to stick with the bitmap modes and try some 3Dish stuff, it really didn't make sense to try to learn new hardware by ignoring the most c
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Gameboy Advance Development by Example: Drawing and Moving Sprites(kylehalladay.com)
136 points by khalladay 10y ago|21 comments
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by khalladay 10y ago
Hey, author of blog post here :) I know about the sprite system in abstract, but I haven't tinkered with it yet (nor do I know enough to start tinkering with it yet). I'm still trying to decide whether I want to go down that route
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by khalladay 10y ago
Although it might last a long time in it's own niche. Perforce is definitely still alive and kicking in the games industry. Git might eventually return to just being the VCS of choice for the linux kernel.
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by khalladay 10y ago
At least with the real time applications that I have experience with, this is often mitigated with custom memory allocators which pre-allocate large contiguous blocks before performance critical sections and then parcels out segments of tho
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by khalladay 13y ago
github gists are an ok solution for this if you don't really mind not having total control over color scheme.