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Re: The Go-Off-Topic Topic
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Re: The Go-Off-Topic Topic
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Re: The Go-Off-Topic Topic
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Re: The Go-Off-Topic Topic
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Re: The Go-Off-Topic Topic
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I got this political propaganda in the mail a few years ago and I just had to tape it to my wall: Because everybody knows Albert Einstein went to an american school, right? Remember, the kind of people who distribute stuff like this are the kind who get voted into office. That's how you know our political system is fucked.
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Re: Fucking Off-Topic thread, alright?
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We've been working on Rayne quasi 2.0 since a bit now (this is not a product announcement, just a segue), and parts of it is a completely rewritten thread pool, which supports better synchronization primitives and gives some more guarantees and freedom with regards to execution, as wall as quality of service. And I can't help but feel in awe of the x86 architecture: My i7 has almost 200 registers and somewhere around 250+ instructions in the pipeline at any given point in time.
x86 is not just an assembly language, it's a masterpiece of engineering effort and an unpredictable cunt. You can shoot your performance to hell by misaligning data, but can achieve exceptional performance gains by intentionally misaligning other data so that it falls into two cache lines. Oh, and then there is this whole SMT concept next to SMP where a single fucking core represents itself as two logical core, where sharing semantics become a little bit different again.
It's amazing that spinning for a couple of thousand cycles can give you 10x performance gain over taking the current thread off of the CPU and incurring context switching penalties. What a great time to live in.
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Re: Fucking Off-Topic thread, alright?
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Optimization is scary. I have a book (admittedly quite old now) called Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book. It's extremely interesting and entertaining to read about all the ways x86 programming has evolved through the decades, but damn does it make me afraid to ever go back to serious optimizing again. On an unrelated note, Barony seems to be taking over the /r/roguelikes subreddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikes/comments/309qo3/barony_the_only_1st_person_roguelike_that_i_feel/A few days ago, we FINALLY caught the attention of the twitch community, who are now gleefully getting their skulls crushed by boulders, spells and archaic weaponry. We're going to launch Barony on April 4th and within 24 hours will have our greenlight up too, so everything seems to be moving along well. The relief is actually palpable. Just a few days ago I seriously felt lower than I probably ever have in my life, but people seem to like the game and with luck we may come out of this with more than just $10 in change. Wish us luck! Or not. I'm not your boss, geez. Jacklifear will be streaming our game later here if you want to watch though: http://www.twitch.tv/jacklifear
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