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by yoklov 10y ago
bgfx sounds like what you're looking for: https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
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by yoklov 10y ago
A big one that's problematic is LastPass. It can hang the browser for a long time, 10+ seconds or so. Very annoying.
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by yoklov 10y ago
I thought it was UB to use < on pointers outside of the same block of memory. e.g. your function is fine if the answer is true, but UB if the answer is false. I could be misremembering though, but I do know I'd always cast to uintpt
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by yoklov 10y ago
Going to second the other comment, when you're rushed for time, you don't end up with "beautiful" code (But you should at least solve the problem). I know none of the code I've ever wrote for a job interview was ver
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by yoklov 10y ago
Extremely clever. Wouldn't this still violate W^X though? I would have thought the OS would see through a trick like this.
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by yoklov 10y ago
> One shouldn't have to enable filesystem-wide W|X just to run one application This is a very good point, and it seems like enabling it more granularly would be worth it. But, for your second point, I have trouble believing that swi
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by yoklov 10y ago
Rust is on my to-learn list (and I'll likely have to learn it for work anyway) but dear god what a horror. That is firmly in the same echelon as C++ template madness.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Is there a way to read this article without signing up for something?
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by yoklov 10y ago
Python is delightful? Many of the only times i've had issues were in python.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Sublime text's search needs work, but on a huge project you often need a dedicated search tool anyway (or plugin for one). IME the search isn't really what people complain about for atom's perf. Certainly isn't what keep
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by yoklov 10y ago
For workloads like graphics, the cost of splitting/merging happens each time.
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by yoklov 10y ago
IMO what you want are curated views into open platforms. Some arbiter deciding what is/isn't acceptable for the platform is very far from ideal. Consider all the great games that have been prevented from going on iOS. Admittedly,
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by yoklov 10y ago
I'm not sure that being able to write a competing browser is a requirement for the platform to be open. Just that anybody can write and deploy code to it. (Full disclosure: I'm employed by Mozilla, but these opinions are entirely
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by yoklov 10y ago
I thought this too, but the fact that you can't send only a chunk of an array buffer is a huge limitation. It basically limits you do using a background thread to do something, instead of dividing the work among many (well, you can, bu
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by yoklov 10y ago
One reason might be that native app distribution platforms are getting progressively more closed, whereas the web is getting/remaining open.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Sadly, it looks very much like both Vulkan and DX12 are going the way of their predecessors. By which I mean tons of extensions, and nobody really thinks that they'll be able to avoid working around buggy games the same way previous dr
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by yoklov 10y ago
> Doing that using an actual switch confounds the CPU’s branch predictor—there is basically a single branch point for the entire interpreter. That quickly saturates the predictor and it just gets confused and fails to predict anything, w
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by yoklov 10y ago
I'm not sure if I think writing C with a garbage collector is a good exercise for learning the subtleties of the language.
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by yoklov 10y ago
Regarding needing to implement a custom sync engine, what would you want that isn't provided by https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/chrome.storage.sync ? Genuinely curious.
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by yoklov 10y ago
It's part of the vector ISAs for both. x86 does as part of SSE (or SSE2, or MMX, etc, I don't remember). ARM it's part of the DSP extensions.
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by yoklov 10y ago
I'm not particularly in the loop on this, though I have talked about it (idley) with a member of TC39, but my understanding is that implementation difficulties are a big part of it. SpiderMonkey and Edge both are having difficulties im
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by yoklov 10y ago
Strong static typing with a fairly powerful type system, pattern matching, operator overloading, compile time macros, inline functions, in addition to many others. Personally my favorite feature is its abstract types, which allowed me to de
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by yoklov 10y ago
Presumably they mean that porting your js examples to C++ isn't likely to be as easy as just flipping a switch. Still orders of magnitude less difficult than rewriting the whole thing in another language, and given that a big target is
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by yoklov 10y ago
The compiler is written in ocaml, so I'd guess not.
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by yoklov 11y ago
Eh... I don't think it's that black and white. As I see it, there's a very compelling argument for restricting streaming of narrative heavy/gameplay light games. Walking sims and the like. I have no trouble believing tha
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by yoklov 11y ago
Because those are, as far as we know, constant throughout the universe?
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by yoklov 11y ago
It can be configured to use the system malloc (IIRC running stuff like asan requires this, or at least I have to set a 'no jemalloc' build option), but I'm not sure if any platform ships with this option turned on. OpenBSD so
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by yoklov 11y ago
It might be a terrible idea, but keep in mind that practically every development platform aside from the web is becoming more and more locked down as time passes (app stores, etc). Which sucks, obviously, but it's not surprising that
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by yoklov 11y ago
I wouldn't expect (commercial) games to use this, even indies. Gamers (on Windows) are extremely harsh if you ship a buggy product, and this tends to be what happens for most linux ports. Gamers on linux are more forgiving since it&#x2
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by yoklov 11y ago
OpenAL is neither good nor reliable. Sadly, nothing on linux has the quality/reliability of DirectSound.

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