What is it with you and the constant underhand insults? I've completely
stopped taking offense, so you might as well continue now, but it seems
unnecessary all the same.
If Fred is leaking memory then it is a bug. Most probably mine. It's also
called a mistake, programmers that unlike you are not quite devine make
them.
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 10:52:40PM -0500, Travis Bemann wrote:
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> This kind of stuff really makes me wonder about the state of
> programming these days. It seems as if programmers have forgotten
> that computers have limited amounts of RAM and swap space and that
> processors are not infinitely fast. Just yesterday, one of my friends
> of "real life" showed me the game Command & Conquer Red Alert II by
> Westwood. It required at least 128 MB of RAM and a 330 MHz x86
> processor! If you aren't doing something like encoding music in
> realtime into a lossy format like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or MP4, a program
> shouldn't require that amount of speed. If you aren't doing something
> like raytracing huge scenes, you shouldn't require that amount of
> space. The idea that a simple realtime strategy game should require
> that kind of power is just crazy. And this doesn't appear to be a
> game which uses 3D rendering in realtime without hardware
> acceleration! Am I one of the few programmers these days who gives a
> shit about memory usage and efficiency?!!
>
> --
> Travis Bemann
> Sendmail is still screwed up on my box.
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