John Carmack On RAGE For iOS/Android

Andrew Smith writes "John Carmack has an article up on the Bethesda blog discussing the iPhone/iPad version of RAGE, which is said to run at an impressive 60fps. 'Managing over a gig of media made dealing with flash memory IO and process memory management very important, and I did a lot of performance investigations to figure things out. Critically, almost all of the data is static, and can be freely discarded. iOS does not have a swapfile, so if you use too much dynamic memory, the OS gives you a warning or two, then kills your process. The bane of iOS developers is that "too much" is not defined, and in fact varies based on what other apps (Safari, Mail, iPod, etc) that are in memory have done. If you read all your game data into memory, the OS can’t do anything with it, and you are in danger. However, if all of your data is in a read-only memory mapped file, the OS can throw it out at will.' And a tweet by Carmack yesterday suggests that an Android version of RAGE is on the way too."

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Re:Furious

[ThePromenader]

In French, 'rage' means 'rabies'. Did that help?

Re:Date of birth to read article?

[MachDelta]

Welcome to the world of video games, where everything is wrapped in thick layers of bubble wrap and plastered with warning signs because, "O-M-G, think of the CHILDREN!!!!!1`1"
Input your age to view this, input your age to read that, input your age to input your age so we can ask about your age and make sure you are of age! It's fucking ridiculous. But video games have been labeled as a bogey-man, so god help us we'll pressure and legislate the piss out of them until they are completely safe for your children!
The interwebz you say? There's nothing wreched and disgusting on the interwebz other than evil, evil video games!
*Sigh*

Re:Rage?

[landuan]

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