On Thursday 26 April 2007 17.16:51 Kyle Lutze wrote: > Cyrille Dunant wrote: > > The short: we have a semantic problem. “rewrite” is a bad word. > > pick a better one
refactoring. > > >>> This does not mean they are unclean! Optimized code is painful to look > >>> at. Example: I needed sparse matrices. > >>> > >>> 1) std::map<std::pair<size_t, size_t>, double> -- 0 lines of code, > >>> works. 2) operator overloading, valarrays and dedicated classes. > >>> speedup x 10 -- 50 lines of code > >>> 3) clever aliasing tricks to get rid of temporaries. speedup x 3 -- 500 > >>> lines of complicated code > >> > >> You forgot: > >> 4) implementing everything in assembler > > > > Not portable unfortunately :) > > /me chooses option 2 (I'm a ricer kind of guy) Well, yeah, but in the end, I went for 3 (am am not that patient :) ) > > Glob2 is slowly dying from lack of players. a game dies because no one > > plays, not because it is not developed anymore. > > negatory, developers are also players. if developers are working on > it and playing it, the game is not dead. yes, but it remains a closed community, and we have a need for various... talents, for want of a better word. > >> Please stop to command us around! > >> We are working for free. Get this into your head. > > > > So am I, believe it or not. > > does it count that drazak and I are helping out with -$ funding? Sorry, so in fact we are not getting paid, but $$s are getting sucked. And nct bought the domain, also. > bastard ISPs, they just don't understand the value of free and open > source :P Oh well, it's 100% worth it to me and I'll keep on doing > it for as long as it doesn't break my budget. Cool, thanks. > > No, they started an new unit allocation mechanism algorithm. Not a > > rewrite. > > if one is already in place, and they are creating a new one to put > in it's stead, doesn't that constitute a rewrite? not really, more of an adjustment of the game mechanisms. But if you ask nct, he will tell you that pretty much everything was tried to get good unit allocation. > > I don't feel like reading the rest of this, my belly is growling at > me to get out of bed and get food, I'll let others take my place for > using the flame throwers on each other as long as no one comes out > dead (or leaving the project). Have a nice breakfast! -- -- Cyrille Dunant -- EPFL-IMX-LMC -- The best defense against logic is ignorance.
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
