I say this as an Australian: All the good cartoons these days seem to be Canadian. Check out Total Drama, Almost Naked Animals, and Kid vs Kat for a few good examples.
I agree with what you say, but it wasn't "whoosh". My point is that the "if you were doing the same thing in C/C++" comment is incorrect on two levels.
1. There is no such thing as "C/C++". 2. No C++ programmer worth their paycheck would ever do this. (Yes, yes, I can think of situations where it's kosher, too. You know what I mean.)
When you turn of RTTI with a flag, you are using a proper subset of C++. If you compile it in (i.e. use a compliant C++ compiler in compliant C++ mode) but don't use it, it only imposes a code size cost, not a runtime cost.
Hmmph, you were either using a truly substandard toolchain or you have little clue about what you are doing.
The word you may have missed is "embedded". Some environments are extremely memory-constrained, and language features like EH and RTTI may not impose a run-time cost if you don't use them, but they do impose a space cost, and sometimes that cost is nontrivial.
And if Slashdot become (e.g.) 90% articles about Justin Bieber and other teen heart-throbs, would you respond similarly to people expressing their discontent?
Not unless they also switch to Beta. I have my priorities straight.
Incidentally, QNX has an interesting design in this respect, in that it maps the the source buffer (a page at a time, IIRC) into the address space of the receiving process, and does the copy directly. Or it might map the destination buffer into the address space of the sending process; not sure about that. This allows messages to be arbitrary-length.
Monoliths, e.g. Linux, don't have IPC latency [...]
In the case of non-memory-mapped I/O (e.g. anything that goes through a file descriptor), the major cost isn't context switching, it's copying data. Microkernels have to transfer all this data between address spaces. Macrokernels, on the other hand, have to transfer it between user space and kernel space. It's basically the same operation with basically the same cost, but it falls under a different heading.
No, the title did not register as a thing. Nonetheless, I stand by my assessment of Irrlicht as being... well, it doesn't suck at what it does necessarily, but it lacks almost everything you'd want these days.
Secondly, while Irrlicht has improved recently, it's still a toy. Forward rendering only (hope you like fixed-function pipeline lights), nothing in the way of screen-space effects (motion blur, distortion, ambient occlusion, etc), or multi-pass rendering of any kind for that matter, no current-gen support (OpenGL 4 / D3D11), and even if you can overcome all that, it's still a rendering engine and not a game engine. No networking, no physics, no movie player (not even Vorbis)... need I go on?
Even Torque is better than Irrlicht, despite the crappy scripting system.
Good science is rigorous, objective, and unbiased. Much of the research that comes out of the "social sciences" is a fucking joke compared to a field like, say, physics.
OK, you didn't understand what I said. That's okay, so let's go through this again.
The social sciences are fields like anthropology, sociology, psychology, and behavioural economics. These fields are just as experimentally-based, data-driven, rigorous, and objective as biology.
The humanities are fields like art, history, music, literature, and culture. These are often informed by science, but they are not science. They are still important to study.
Anita Sarkeesian is doing humanities, not social science. If you pay attention to her videos, she does report results from social science, because this is part of the methodology. But she is not doing science, and she would be the first to agree with this.
There are no buts man. up until you did the old victim blaming thing I had respect for your opinion.
It's unfortunate that people are engaging in victim-blaming, because it obscures some potentially very important discussions that we need to have about why nude selfies now seem to be expected behaviour for anyone under the age of 30 in an intimate relationship (Cindy Gallop would probably blame porn, and do follow that link and see what she has to say before you respond to that remark; it's less than 5 min), and why people trust Apple/Facebook/the government with our most personal of personal information.
Right after a hundred or so people have been the victim of a crime is probably not the best time to have this discussion. On the other hand, if we wait too long, the news cycle will have moved on.
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The summary at least says "imitate".
Indeed. For all we know, this could be the equivalent of Charlie Chan. Did anyone ask the dolphins if they find it offensive?
Sturgeon's Revelation applies.
Pat & Mat. Trust me on this one.
So you didn't watch Rocky & Bullwinkle and Roger Ramjet, or you were too young to get the Cold War satire?
I say this as an Australian: All the good cartoons these days seem to be Canadian. Check out Total Drama, Almost Naked Animals, and Kid vs Kat for a few good examples.
I agree with what you say, but it wasn't "whoosh". My point is that the "if you were doing the same thing in C/C++" comment is incorrect on two levels.
1. There is no such thing as "C/C++".
2. No C++ programmer worth their paycheck would ever do this. (Yes, yes, I can think of situations where it's kosher, too. You know what I mean.)
When you turn of RTTI with a flag, you are using a proper subset of C++. If you compile it in (i.e. use a compliant C++ compiler in compliant C++ mode) but don't use it, it only imposes a code size cost, not a runtime cost.
Hmmph, you were either using a truly substandard toolchain or you have little clue about what you are doing.
The word you may have missed is "embedded". Some environments are extremely memory-constrained, and language features like EH and RTTI may not impose a run-time cost if you don't use them, but they do impose a space cost, and sometimes that cost is nontrivial.
That's why no C++ programmer ever writes code like this:
MyObject* localObj = new MyObject();
That line is considered a bug in C++.
Dunno about that. Have a look at fs/pipe.c some time; all those gotos didn't write themselves.
"We wouldn't have swallowed this at NeXT", said Ross perorally.
And if Slashdot become (e.g.) 90% articles about Justin Bieber and other teen heart-throbs, would you respond similarly to people expressing their discontent?
Not unless they also switch to Beta. I have my priorities straight.
People not from Australia may not realise that we already do this with criminal gangs that also happen to like motorcycles.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed just how unlike the real Caliphate this is.
Incidentally, QNX has an interesting design in this respect, in that it maps the the source buffer (a page at a time, IIRC) into the address space of the receiving process, and does the copy directly. Or it might map the destination buffer into the address space of the sending process; not sure about that. This allows messages to be arbitrary-length.
In the case of non-memory-mapped I/O (e.g. anything that goes through a file descriptor), the major cost isn't context switching, it's copying data. Microkernels have to transfer all this data between address spaces. Macrokernels, on the other hand, have to transfer it between user space and kernel space. It's basically the same operation with basically the same cost, but it falls under a different heading.
With $2 billion, he could afford a MSO.
No, the title did not register as a thing. Nonetheless, I stand by my assessment of Irrlicht as being... well, it doesn't suck at what it does necessarily, but it lacks almost everything you'd want these days.
Oh, it's worse than that. They're nerds.
But you have to admit, it's one hell of a trick.
I think the breakdown is:
- Minecraft IP: $1.9 billion
- Notch's good luck: $90 million
- Rest of company: $10 million
- Chance to port WinRT to the DCPU-16: priceless
First off, Minecraft is written in Java.
Secondly, while Irrlicht has improved recently, it's still a toy. Forward rendering only (hope you like fixed-function pipeline lights), nothing in the way of screen-space effects (motion blur, distortion, ambient occlusion, etc), or multi-pass rendering of any kind for that matter, no current-gen support (OpenGL 4 / D3D11), and even if you can overcome all that, it's still a rendering engine and not a game engine. No networking, no physics, no movie player (not even Vorbis)... need I go on?
Even Torque is better than Irrlicht, despite the crappy scripting system.
OK, you didn't understand what I said. That's okay, so let's go through this again.
The social sciences are fields like anthropology, sociology, psychology, and behavioural economics. These fields are just as experimentally-based, data-driven, rigorous, and objective as biology.
The humanities are fields like art, history, music, literature, and culture. These are often informed by science, but they are not science. They are still important to study.
Anita Sarkeesian is doing humanities, not social science. If you pay attention to her videos, she does report results from social science, because this is part of the methodology. But she is not doing science, and she would be the first to agree with this.
Did that help?
There are no buts man. up until you did the old victim blaming thing I had respect for your opinion.
It's unfortunate that people are engaging in victim-blaming, because it obscures some potentially very important discussions that we need to have about why nude selfies now seem to be expected behaviour for anyone under the age of 30 in an intimate relationship (Cindy Gallop would probably blame porn, and do follow that link and see what she has to say before you respond to that remark; it's less than 5 min), and why people trust Apple/Facebook/the government with our most personal of personal information.
Right after a hundred or so people have been the victim of a crime is probably not the best time to have this discussion. On the other hand, if we wait too long, the news cycle will have moved on.
I don't see where you got "the evil that is man". Just "the evil that is LEGO marketers".
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